Colias arida
Species of butterfly
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Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
| Colias arida | |
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| 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 Alphéraky, 1889 | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
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