Colias viluiensis

Colias viluiensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colias
Species:	C. viluiensis
Binomial name
	Colias viluiensis; Ménétries, 1859[1]

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

Colias, Site of Markku Savela
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.

External links

State Darwin Museum Darwin Museum type specimen images of Colias viluiensis heliophora Churkin et Grieshuber, 2001
Rusinsects

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[funet-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.