Colias viluiensis explained

Colias viluiensis, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Transbaikalia.

Description

Pale orange-yellow, with rather narrow distal margin, light-centred middle spot on the forewing and very large, reddish-brown-edged middle spot on the hindwing. Underside pale yellow; hindwing dusted with greenish, the distal margins being pale blackish, the middle spot of the forewing having a light-coloured centre and the large white middle spot of the hindwing being double and edged with black; female red or white, hindwing sometimes almost black.

Subspecies

Taxonomy

Treated as a subspecies of Colias hecla by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas, who point out that the spelling viluensis was used by Ménétriés in his earliest published description.[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas . 2007 . A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) . . 97 . 131–171 . 2013-05-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083804/http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/body/content/departamentos/entomologia/entomologia/grieshuber_2007-Colias.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .