Colias tamerlana
Species of butterfly
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Colias tamerlana is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm (western Siberia, northern China, and Mongolia).
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. tamerlana |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias tamerlana Staudinger, 1897 [1] | |
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Description
It is a large and very dark member of the genus Colias.
Biology
The larva feeds on Oxytropis oligantha
Subspecies
- C. t. tamerlana Xinjiang, Kirgizia (eastern Issyk Kul)
- C. t. mongola Alphéraky, 1897 Altai, Sayan
- C. t. sidonia Weiss, 1968 northern Mongolia
Taxonomy
It was accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas[2] but may be a subspecies of Colias nastes.[3]
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