Colias heos

Colias heos
	Upperside
	Underside
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colias
Species:	C. heos
Binomial name
	Colias heos; Herbst, 1792
Synonyms
	Papilio aurora Esper, 1783 (preocc.); Colias aurora ab. obscura Moltrecht, 1909; Colias sibirica Lederer, 1852; Colias kenteana Rühl, 1895; Colias semenovi Shtandel, 1960;

Colias heos is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the East Palearctic (Altai to southern Siberia, Mongolia to Ussuri, southeastern China).

Description

C. aurora (heos) is a beautiful dark orange-red species. The veins are thinly black, being yellow however in the black marginal band. The hindwing is somewhat dusky, being again lighter before the black distal margin; the costa of the forewing is yellow, the moderately large middle spot of the forewing pale centred, the large orange-red middle spot of the hindwing contrasting with the ground. The underside of a beautiful yellow, with sparse markings, the black middle spot of the forewing pale centred, and that of the hindwing the colour of mother of pearl, edged with brownish, being sometimes double. The female has the ground colour orange red, or yellow, or white; the white females are named ab. chloe Eversmann; in the marginal band there are yellow spots, which are often united on the hindwing to form a band. decolorata Staudinger, from Dauria, is a lighter coloured local form.

Biology

The larva feeds on Vicia, Astragalus, Trifolium lucanicum

Subspecies

C. h. heos
C. h. alpina Verity, 1911 Altai, Sayan
C. h. semenovi Shtandel, 1960
C. h. thia Bang-Haas, 1934 "Kansu mer. occ., Meitschouan, Minschan. Anfang Juli- 2000 m"
C. h. vespera O. Bang-Haas, 1929 "Kansu, Gebirge bei Lantschou"

Taxonomy

Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas ^[2]

References

^ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
^ 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 2013-05-17.

External links

Global Butterfly Information System Images of C. h. heos
Global Butterfly Information System Images of C. h. thia Bang-Haas, 1934 "Kansu mer. occ., Meitschouan, Minschan. Anfang Juli- 2000 m"
Global Butterfly Information System Images of C. h. vespera Bang-Haas, 1927

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[funet-1] Colias, Site of Markku Savela

[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 2013-05-17.

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