Colotis

Colotis, called orange tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and south-western Asia.[1] The larvae of all Colotis species specialize on plants in the family Capparaceae.

Colotis
Colotis danae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Teracolini
Genus:	Colotis Hübner, [1819]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Teracolus Swainson, [1833] Idmais Boisduval, 1836 Callosune Doubleday, [1847] Anthopsyche Wallengren, 1857 Ptychopteryx Wallengren, 1857 Thespia Wallengren, 1858 Calicharis Oberthür, 1876 Gideona Klots, 1933 Cuneacolotis Henning et al., 1997

Scarlet tip (C. danae) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Small orange-tip (C. etrida) in Narsapur, Medak district, India

Veined tip (C. vesta) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Species

Listed alphabetically within subgroups:[2]

Subgenus Colotis Hübner, [1819]:

• Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) – topaz Arab or small salmon Arab
• Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) – large orange tip or red tip
• Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) – African golden, Arab veined, or gold double-banded orange
• Colotis aurora (Cramer, [1780]) – plain orange tip
• Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) – sulphur orange tip or yellow orange tip
• Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) – lilac tip or magenta tip
• Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) – golden Arab
• Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) – black-marked orange tip
• Colotis danae (Fabricius, 1775) – scarlet tip or crimson tip
• Colotis dissociatus (Butler, 1897)
• Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862) – Doubleday's tip
• Colotis elgonensis (Sharpe, 1891) – Elgon crimson tip
• Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis erone (Angas, 1849) – coast purple tip
• Colotis etrida (Boisduval, 1836) – (small) orange tip
• Colotis eucharis (Fabricius, 1775) – plain orange tip or sulphur orange tip
• Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round winged orange tip
• Colotis eunoma (Hopffer, 1855) – three spot crimson tip
• Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829) – desert orange tip, small orange tip or tiny orange tip
• Colotis evanthe (Boisduval, 1836) – Madagascar orange-tip
• Colotis evanthides (Holland, 1896)
• Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857) – common orange tip
• Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) – (large) salmon Arab
• Colotis guenei (Mabille, 1877) – Madagascar red-tip
• Colotis halimede (Klug, 1829) – yellow patch, white orange patch white, white and orange Halimede, or dappled white
• Colotis hetaera (Gerstaecker, 1871) – crimson tip or coast purple tip
• Colotis hildebrandti (Staudinger, 1885) – golden tip
• Colotis incretus (Butler, 1881)
• Colotis ione (Godart, 1819) – Bushveld purple tip, (common) purple tip or violet tip
• Colotis lais (Butler, 1876)
• Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis mananhari (Ward, 1870) – chevron white
• Colotis pallene (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld orange tip
• Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) – blue-spotted Arab or variable colotis
• Colotis protractus Butler, 1876
• Colotis pleione (Klug, 1829) – orange patch white
• Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829) – yellow splendour
• Colotis regina (Trimen, 1863) – large violet tip, regal purple tip, or queen purple tip
• Colotis rogersi (Dixey, 1915) – Rogers' orange tip
• Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922)
• Colotis venosa (Staudinger, 1885) – no patch white
• Colotis vesta (Reiche, 1849) – veined orange, veined tip, or veined golden Arab
• Colotis vestalis (Butler, 1876) – white Arab
• Colotis zoe (Grandidier, 1867) – violet-tip

Subgenus Teracolus (Swainson, 1833):

• Colotis eris (Klug, 1829) – banded gold tip or black-barred gold tip
• Colotis subfasciatus (Swainson, 1833) – lemon traveller or lemon tip

Subgenus Cuneacolotis (Henning et al., 1997):

• Colotis agoye (Wallengren, 1857) – speckled sulphur tip

Subgenus Gideona (Klots, 1933):

• Colotis lucasi (Grandidier, 1867) – giant orange-tip

Status unknown:

• Colotis fallax (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa

References

1. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
2. Colotis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

• Pteron Images
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 16 et seq.