Colias grumi

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Colias grumi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. grumi
Binomial name
Colias grumi

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

Subspecies[edit]

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

  • C. g. grumi
  • C. g. aljinshana Huang & Murayama, 1992 Xinjiang.
  • C. g. dvoraki Kocman, 1994

Description[edit]

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

Taxonomy[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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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