Colias grumi

Colias grumi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. grumi
Binomial name
Colias grumi
Alphéraky, 1897 [1]

Colias grumi is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in north-western China (described from Nanshan).

Subspecies

All described subspecies may be only ecological variations, and therefore junior synonyms. The taxa C. g. burchana and C. g. evanescens are only provisionally accepted as subspecies

Description

It is similar to Colias cocandica but is lighter in colour, the hindwing beneath being blue-grey, not greenish.

Taxonomy

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

References

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  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.


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