Colias arida

Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.

Colias arida
a. male, b. female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. arida
Binomial name
Colias arida
Synonyms
  • Colias eogene var. arida Alphéraky, 1889
  • Colias eogene ab. auritheme Grum-Grshimailo, 1893
  • Colias cocandica irma Evans, 1924
  • Colias arida var. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893

Taxonomy

Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males."[1] It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.[2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

  • C. a. arida
  • C. a. cakana Rose & Schulte, 1992
  • C. a. muetingi Rose & Schulte, 1992
  • C. a. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as Colias wanda

References
  1. Julius Röber in Seitz, A. 1906 The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera Volume 1 The Palearctic Butterflies Stuttgart : Seitz'schen (Kernen)
  2. Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas (2007). "A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 97: 131–171. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-14.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.