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Colotis

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Colotis

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thumb|right|Scarlet tip (Colotis danae|C. danae) [[Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania]] thumb|right|Small orange-tip (Colotis etrida|C. etrida) in [[Narsapur, Medak district, India]] thumb|right|Veined tip (Colotis vesta|C. vesta) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Species

Round-winged Orange Tip

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyPieridae
Observations2,146
Observations recorded59,292

Colotis es un género de mariposas de la familia Pieridae (subfamilia Pierinae, tribu Colotini). Incluye 3 subgéneros, 49 especies y 87 subespecies, que se distribuyen por África, India, Ceilan, Rodesia, Madagascar, Líbano, Siria, Israel, Turquía, Afganistán, Baluchistan, Chad, Etiopía, Golfo Pérsico y Arabia.[1]​ Especies Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) Colotis aurora (Cramer, 1780) Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) Colotis bacchus (Butler, 1888) Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) Colotis danae (Fabricius, 1775) Colotis dissociatus (Butler, 1897) Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862) Colotis elgonensis (Sharpe, 1891) Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829) Colotis erone (Angas, 1849) Colotis etrida (Boisduval, 1836) Colotis eucharis (Fabricius, 1775) Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) Colotis eunoma (Hopffer, 1855) Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829) Colotis evanthe (Boisduval, 1836) Colotis evanthides (Holland, 1896) Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857) Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) Colotis guenei (Mabille, 1877) Colotis halimede (Klug, 1829) Colotis hetaera (Gerstaecker, 1871) Colotis hild

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
81
With media
16
Family
Pieridae
Collections
YPM, UMNH, SAM, DCH, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV)
Recorded in
Tanzania, Botswana, Ethiopia, Angola, United States, Zambia, Ghana, South Africa
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thumb|right|Scarlet tip (Colotis danae|C. danae) [[Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania]] thumb|right|Small orange-tip (Colotis etrida|C. etrida) in [[Narsapur, Medak district, India]] thumb|right|Veined tip (Colotis vesta|C. vesta) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

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

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