Colias leechi

Colias leechi is a very little known butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described from the East Palearctic "In ramificationibus occidentalibus montium Himalayensium in valle Chonging" (17,000 feet (5,200 m) altitude).[2]

Colias leechi
dorsal side; scalebar=1 cm
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. leechi
Binomial name
Colias leechi
Synonyms
  • Colias eogene var. leechi Grum-Grshimailo, 1893

Chongqing covers a large area crisscrossed by rivers and mountains. None are high enough to fit the description and Röber gives Sikkim as the locality[3] and the British Museum card gives the type locality as West Himalaya Ladak.

Taxonomy

Described as a variety of Colias eogene. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index treats leechi as Colias staudingeri ssp. leechi. Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [4]

References
  1. Colias, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Grum-Grshimailo, (1893). Lepidoptera nova in Asia centrali novissime lecta et descripta. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 27:382
  3. Julius Röber in Seitz, A. 1906 The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera Volume 1 The Palearctic Butterflies Stuttgart : Seitz'schen (Kernen)
  4. 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 2013-05-18.


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