Colias viluiensis
Species of butterfly
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Colias viluiensis, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Transbaikalia.
| Colias viluiensis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. viluiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias viluiensis | |
Description
Pale orange-yellow, with rather narrow distal margin, light-centred middle spot on the forewing and very large, reddish-brown-edged middle spot on the hindwing. Underside pale yellow; hindwing dusted with greenish, the distal margins being pale blackish, the middle spot of the forewing having a light-coloured centre and the large white middle spot of the hindwing being double and edged with black; female red or white, hindwing sometimes almost black.
Subspecies
- C. v. viluiensis
- C. v. dahurica Austaut, 1899
- C. v. heliophora Churkin & Grieshuber, 2001 Chukotka
Taxonomy
Treated as a subspecies of Colias hecla by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas, who point out that the spelling viluensis was used by Ménétriés in his earliest published description.[2]
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