Colotis euippe
Colotis euippe is a butterfly of the family Pieridae that is found in the Afrotropical realm.
Colotis euippe | |
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C. e. euippe male Bobiri Forest, Ghana | |
Female, uMkhuze Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Colotis |
Species: | C. euippe |
Binomial name | |
Colotis euippe | |
Synonyms | |
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The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.[2]
The larva feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.[2]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- C. e. euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round-winged orange tip[1] (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[2] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, 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)
- C. e. euippe, male
Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Ghana
Life cycle gallery
- Larva on Capparis sepiaria
- Larva
- Larva pupating
- Pupa
- Recently hatched from pupa
- Opening wings
- Wings open
- Underside
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References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colotis euippe. |
- Colotis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
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