Colotis euippe explained
Colotis euippe is a butterfly of the family Pieridae that is found in the Afrotropical realm.
Description
The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.[1]
Adults in Witsand offer reduced black markings in their summer forms, differing from specimens from other regions.[2]
Habitat and behavior
The larvae feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.[1]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- C. e. euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round-winged orange tip (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[1] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, 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)
Notes and References
- Book: Woodhall, Steve . Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa . 2005 . Cape Town, South Africa . Struik . 978-1-86872-724-7 .
- Krüger . M. . 2000 . A review of the afrotropical Cabera subalba group, with description of the first Southern African species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae) . Metamorphosis . 11 . 3 . 111–121 . 2307-5031 . Lepsoc.
