Colias arida explained

Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.

Taxonomy

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]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

• C. a. arida
• C. a. cakana Rose & Schulte, 1992
• C. a. muetingi Rose & Schulte, 1992
• C. a. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as Colias wanda

Notes and References

1. [Julius Röber]
2. Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas . 2007 . A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) . . 97 . 131–171 . 2013-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083804/http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/body/content/departamentos/entomologia/entomologia/grieshuber_2007-Colias.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .