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 | |
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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 Grum-Grshimailo, 1893[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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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]
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gollark: ++exec```haskelldata Would = Seriously Why Inttype Mad = ()data Are = Are Madtype Is = Aredata You = You Are Maddata Thing = This Thing Is Maddata This = Thing Madtype Do = Thing -> You -> [Thing]data Why = Why Would You Do Thiswhy :: Whywhy = Why would you do this where would = Would why 0 you = You (Are ()) () do = \_ _ -> [] this = Thing ()```
gollark: ```haskelldata Would = Seriously Why Inttype Mad = ()data Are = Are Madtype Is = Aredata You = You Are Maddata Thing = This Thing Is Maddata This = Thing Maddata Do = Thing -> You -> [Thing]data Why = Why Would You Do This```
References
Wikispecies has information related to Colias leechi |
- Colias, Site of Markku Savela
- Grum-Grshimailo, (1893). Lepidoptera nova in Asia centrali novissime lecta et descripta. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 27:382
- 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 2013-05-18.
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