Colias alfacariensis

Berger's clouded yellow
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pieridae
Genus:Colias
Species: C. alfacariensis
Binomial name
Colias alfacariensis
Ribbe, 1905
Synonyms

Colias sareptensis Staudinger, 1871
Colias australis Verity, 1911

Colias alfacariensis, Berger's clouded yellow, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It was separated from the pale clouded yellow, C. hyale, in 1945. Berger's clouded yellow is a Palearctic species (South and Central Europe, South Russia, Russian Far East, Asia Minor, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Middle Asia China).

Specimen

Biology

The food plants are horseshoe vetch (Hippocrepis comosa) and crown vetch (Coronilla varia). The caterpillar that forms into this butterfly is green with some black spines on the top. As it matures and prepares to pupate it turns yellow in color.

Migration

This species is a rare vagrant to Britain and Denmark.

Subspecies

  • C. a. vihorlatensis Reissinger, 1989[1] – Carpathians
  • C. a. remota Reissinger, 1989 – S. Europe, Caucaus
  • C. a. fontainei Reissinger, 1989 – Armenia, Talysh, Kopet-Dagh
  • C. a. saissanica Reissinger, 1989 – S. E. Kazakhstan

References

  1. ↑ Reissinger, Eduard (1989). "Die geographisch-subspecifische Gliederung von Colias alfacariensis Ribbe unter Berücksichtigun der Migrationsverhältnisse" (PDF). Neue Ent. Nachricten. 26: 1–351.
  • Otokar Kudrna, 1981 On the Nomenclature of Colias alfacariensis Berger 1948. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 20(2): 103-110
  • "Berger's Clouded Yellow". Retrieved 18 October 2011.
  • "Berger's Clouded Yellow". Butterfly Conservation. Retrieved 18 October 2011.


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