Colias grumi explained

Colias grumi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in north-western China (described from Nanshan).

Subspecies

All described subspecies may be only ecological variations, and therefore junior synonyms. The taxa C. g. burchana and C. g. evanescens are only provisionally accepted as subspecies

• C. g. grumi
• C. g. aljinshana Huang & Murayama, 1992 Xinjiang.
• C. g. dvoraki Kocman, 1994

Description

It is similar to Colias cocandica but is lighter in colour, the hindwing beneath being blue-grey, not greenish.

Taxonomy

Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas ^[1]

External links

• Euroleps includes image

Notes and References

1. Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas . 2007 . A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) . . 97 . 131–171 . 2013-05-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083804/http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/body/content/departamentos/entomologia/entomologia/grieshuber_2007-Colias.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .