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Species of butterfly
Colotis euippe
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C. e. euippe male Bobiri Forest,
Ghana
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Female,
uMkhuze Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Pieridae
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Genus:
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Colotis
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Species:
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C. euippe
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Binomial name
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Colotis euippe
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Synonyms
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- Papilio euippe Linnaeus, 1758
- Papilio arethusa Drury, 1773
- Papilio hanna Herbst, 1792
- Pieris amytis Godart, 1819
- Anthocharis cebrene Boisduval, 1836
- Anthocharis ocale Boisduval, 1836
- Anthocharis eurygone Lucas, 1852
- Anthopsyche epigone Felder and Felder, 1865
- Teracolus pseudocale Butler, 1876
- Teracolus angolensis Butler, 1876
- Teracolus microcale Butler, 1876
- Teracolus suffusus Butler, 1876
- Teracolus loandicus Butler, 1872
- Teracolus evippe ab. pulveratula Strand, 1913
- Teracolus evippe ab. mokundangensis Strand, 1913
- Colotis evippe evippe f. leucoma Talbot, 1939
- Teracolus complexivus Butler, 1886
- Teracolus pyrrhopterus Butler, 1894
- Colotis evippe f. mugenya Stoneham, 1940
- Colotis evippe f. lydia Stoneham, 1957
- Colotis evippe f. deineira Stoneham, 1957
- Colotis evippe f. evander Stoneham, 1957
- Anthocharis exole Reiche, 1850
- Anthopsyche roxane Felder and Felder, 1865
- Colotis evippe f. ochroleucus Talbot, 1939
- Colotis paradoxa Dufrane, 1947
- Pieris omphale Godart, 1819
- Anthocharis theogone Boisduval, 1836
- Anthopsyche procne Wallengren, 1857
- Anthopsyche acte Felder and Felder, 1865
- Teracolus omphaloides Butler, 1876
- Teracolus hybridus Butler, 1876
- Colotis evippe omphale f. ochreata Talbot, 1939
- Colotis euippe f. arcuata van Son, 1949
- Colotis euippe f. namaqua van Son, 1949
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Colotis euippe is a
butterfly of the family
Pieridae that is found in the
Afrotropical realm.
The
wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.
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The
larvae feed on
Maerua,
Capparis,
Cadaba, and
Boscia species.
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Subspecies
The following
subspecies are recognised:
- C. e. euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round-winged orange tip
[2] (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola)
- C. e. mediata Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe)
- C. e. omphale (Godart, 1819) – smoky orange tip
[3] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros)
- C. e. complexivus (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia)
- C. e. exole (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
- C. e. mirei Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad)
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C. e. euippe, male
Shai Hills Resource Reserve,
Ghana
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Life cycle gallery
References
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