Colias arida | |
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a. male, b. female | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Colias |
Species: |
C. arida
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Binomial name | |
Colias arida Alphéraky, 1889 | |
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Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
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]
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