Colotis euippe

The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.^[3]

Adults in Witsand offer reduced black markings in their summer forms, differing from specimens from other regions.^[4]

The larvae feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.^[3]

The following subspecies are recognised:

• C. e. euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round-winged orange tip^[2] (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola)
• C. e. mediata Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe)
• C. e. omphale (Godart, 1819) – smoky orange tip^[3] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros)
• C. e. complexivus (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia)
• C. e. exole (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
• C. e. mirei Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad)

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  C. e. euippe, male
  Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Ghana
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  C. e. complexivus, male
  Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda
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  C. e. omphale male, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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  C. e. omphale female, Maputo National Park, Mozambique

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  Larva on Capparis sepiaria
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  Larva
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  Larva pupating
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  Pupa
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  Recently hatched from pupa
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  Opening wings
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  Wings open
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  Underside