Colias leechi
Species of butterfly
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Colias leechi is a very little known butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described from the East Palearctic "In ramificationibus occidentalibus montium Himalayensium in valle Chonging" (17,000 feet (5,200 m) altitude).[2]
| Colias leechi | |
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| dorsal side; scalebar=1 cm | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. leechi |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias leechi Grum-Grshimailo, 1893[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chongqing covers a large area crisscrossed by rivers and mountains. None are high enough to fit the description and Röber gives Sikkim as the locality[3] and the British Museum card gives the type locality as West Himalaya Ladak.
Taxonomy
Described as a variety of Colias eogene. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index treats leechi as Colias staudingeri ssp. leechi. Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [4]
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