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Colias viluiensis

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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

  • C. v. viluiensis
  • C. v. dahurica Austaut, 1899
  • C. v. heliophora Churkin & Grieshuber, 2001 Chukotka

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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ^ Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas (2007). "A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 97: 131–171. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-15.

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Colias viluiensis: Brief Summary

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

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