Colotis evenina
Common orange tip | |
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THIS IS A PICTURE OF (probably) COLOTIS PALLENE. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | Euarthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Colotis |
Species: | C. evenina |
Binomial name | |
Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Colotis evenina, the common orange tip, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.
The wingspan is 38–45 mm in males and 35–42 mm in females. The adults fly year-round.[2]
As Colotis evenina never has discocellular dots ([3]), the picture here used is NOT evenina, but probably Colotis pallene (Hopffer, 1855).
The larva feed on Boscia albitrunca and Capparis species.[2]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:[1][2]
- C. e. evenina (Mozambique, southern and eastern Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho)
- C. e. sipylus (Swinhoe, 1884) (coast of Kenya, Tanzania, northern Zimbabwe)
- C. e. xantholeuca (Sharpe, 1904) (southern Uganda, central and south-western Kenya, central, northern and western Tanzania)
- C. e. casta (Gerstaecker, 1871) (northern Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, northern Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia)
References
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