Colotis

Colotis
Colotis
Colotis danae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Pierinae
Tribe: Colotini
Genus: Colotis
Hübner, [1819]
Species

see text
Synonyms
  • Teracolus Swainson, [1833]
  • Idmais Boisduval, 1836
  • Callosune Doubleday, [1847]
  • Anthopsyche Wallengren, 1857
  • Ptychopteryx Wallengren, 1857
  • Thespia Wallengren, 1858
  • Calicharis Oberthür, 1876
  • Gideona Klots, 1933
  • Cuneacolotis Henning et al., 1997
Scarlet Tip (C. danae) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
Small Orange-tip (C. etrida) in Narsapur, Medak district, India.
Veined Tip (C. vesta) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Colotis, called Orange Tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and southwestern Asia.[1]

Species

Listed alphabetically within subgroups.[2]

  • Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) – Topaz Arab or Small Salmon Arab
  • Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) – Large Orange Tip or Red Tip
  • Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) – African Golden, Arab Veined, or Gold Double-banded Orange
  • Colotis aurora (Cramer, [1780]) – Plain Orange Tip
  • Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) – Sulphur Orange Tip or Yellow Orange Tip
  • Colotis bacchus (Butler, 1888)
  • Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) – Lilac Tip or Magenta Tip
  • Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) – Golden Arab
  • Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) – Black-Marked Orange Tip
  • Colotis danae Fabricius, 1775) – Scarlet Tip or Crimson Tip
  • Colotis dissociatus (Butler, 1897)
  • Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862) – Doubleday's Tip
  • Colotis elgonensis (Sharpe, 1891) – Elgon Crimson Tip
  • Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
  • Colotis erone (Angas, 1849) – Coast Purple Tip
  • Colotis etrida (Boisduval, 1836) – (Small) Orange Tip
  • Colotis eucharis (Fabricius, 1775) – Plain Orange Tip or Sulphur Orange Tip
  • Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Round Winged Orange Tip
  • Colotis eunoma (Hopffer, 1855) – Three Spot Crimson Tip
  • Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829) – Desert Orange Tip, Small Orange Tip or Tiny Orange Tip
  • Colotis evanthe (Boisduval, 1836) – Madagascar Orange-Tip
  • Colotis evanthides (Holland, 1896)
  • Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857) – Common Orange Tip
  • Colotis fallax (Wichgraf, 1913)
  • Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) – (Large) Salmon Arab
  • Colotis guenei (Mabille, 1877) – Madagascar Red-Tip
  • Colotis halimede (Klug, 1829) – Yellow Patch, White Orange Patch White, White and Orange Halimede, or Dappled White
  • Colotis hetaera (Gerstaecker, 1871) – Crimson Tip or Coast Purple Tip
  • Colotis hildebrandti (Staudinger, 1885) – Golden Tip
  • Colotis incretus (Butler, 1881)
  • Colotis ione (Godart, 1819) – Bushveld Purple Tip, (Common) Purple Tip or Violet Tip
  • Colotis lais (Butler, 1876)
  • Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
  • Colotis mananhari (Ward, 1870) – Chevron White
  • Colotis pallene (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld Orange Tip
  • Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) – Blue-spotted Arab or Variable Colotis
  • Colotis protractus Butler, 1876
  • Colotis pleione (Klug, 1829) – Orange Patch White
  • Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829) – Yellow Splendour
  • Colotis regina (Trimen, 1863) – Large Violet Tip, Regal Purple Tip, or Queen Purple Tip
  • Colotis rogersi (Dixey, 1915) – Rogers' Orange Tip
  • Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922)
  • Colotis venosa (Staudinger, 1885) – No Patch White
  • Colotis vesta (Reiche, 1849) – Veined Orange, Veined Tip, or Veined Golden Arab
  • Colotis vestalis (Butler, 1876) – White Arab
  • Colotis zoe (Grandidier, 1867) – Violet-Tip

Subgenus Teracolus (Swainson, 1833):

Subgenus Cuneacolotis (Henning et al., 1997):

Subgenus Gideona (Klots, 1933):

  • Colotis lucasi (Grandidier, 1867) – Giant Orange-Tip

References

  1. ^ Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005
  2. ^ Colotis, funet.fi
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