Colias arida

Colias arida
	a. male, b. female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colias
Species:	C. arida
Binomial name
	Colias arida; Alphéraky, 1889
Synonyms
	Colias eogene var. arida Alphéraky, 1889; Colias eogene ab. auritheme Grum-Grshimailo, 1893; Colias cocandica irma Evans, 1924; Colias arida var. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893;

Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.

Taxonomy

Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males."[1] It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.[2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

C. a. arida
C. a. cakana Rose & Schulte, 1992
C. a. muetingi Rose & Schulte, 1992
C. a. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as Colias wanda

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References

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)
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 2013-05-14.

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[1] 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)

[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 2013-05-14.