Colias adelaidae
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Needled Colias adelaidae adelaidae ♂ |
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Colias needle aidae is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Whites (Pieridae) in China occurs.
description
butterfly
The male of Colias adelaidae adelaidae has a wingspan of 40–44 mm. The wings are orange-reddish and shimmer purple at a certain angle. The black outer edge of the forewing is 6 mm wide at the apex and 3–4 mm wide at the inner angle . The veins on the orange background are black and rarely have a yellow border. The fringes vary from white to pink. The well-developed discoid disc on the forewing is black. The black outer edge of the hind wings is irregular on the inside and 4-5 mm wide. The hind wing is greenish in front of the inner edge, in front of it a broad brown band runs from the inner corner to the base. The sometimes divided scented pouch is well developed.
The undersides of the wings are yellow with a slight green cast. The forewings are pollinated red in the basal and discal regions. The small discoidal disc of the forewings is black, in the middle of the wing there are often small white speckles and weakly pronounced, irregular brown spots on the inner edge of the submarginal band. The hind wings have a discoid white spot with a red border, a submarginal row of red spots is often clearly visible.
The female, with a span of 38–44 mm, is mostly white at the top and at the base (about 65%) and less often yellowish to orange and looks dirty due to a more or less strong dark pollination. The dark pollination is so strong that submarginally of the basic color only a row of five to seven yellow spots on the fore wing and five to six on the hind wing can be seen. The hind wings are whitish with strong orange discoid spots. In the basal and discal areas, the pollination of the forewings is weaker and the basic color is clearly visible, on the hind wing it is almost invisible due to the strong pollination and they appear brownish. The discoidal spot on the forewings is black and red on the hindwing.
As with the males, the underside of the front wings is yellow with a green cast and in some specimens yellow to orange. The fringes are pink.
Subspecies karmalana
The male of Colias adelaidae karmalana has a wingspan of 43 mm, the basic color corresponds to the nominate form, the black outer edge is very wide. The discoidal spot is only faintly visible on the hind wing and there are two bright spots on the lower part. The underside is light green, in places also very pale yellow.
The underside of the forewings is dusted gray in the basal and discal region and slightly brownish, and in the hind wing it has a strong gray scale from the basal to the submarginal region. The cell spot is core white. The entire submarginal area is green. The brown-black points on the inner edge of the submarginal bandage on the underside of the anterior and posterior wings are striking. The fringes are dirty white.
The females of the subspecies karmalana have a fore wing length of 27 mm with a wingspan of 45 mm. On the fore and hind wings the wide submarginal bandage is interspersed with large yellow spots. The upper side of the forewing is colored orange and shimmers slightly purple at a certain angle. In contrast to the nominate form, the hind wings are darkened strongly black and have a large orange cell spot, in front of which there is a small orange spot and from which an orange line stretches towards the basal region.
The underside of the wing has a gray-green basic color and is orange and somewhat yellow in the disk and basal area of the forewing. The submarginal area is lightened by whitish-yellow spots.
On the underside of the hind wing, the inner edge of the submarginal bandage is pale brown in color. The silver-colored cell stain has a brown border. The fringes are dirty white on the top and pink on the underside.
Similar species
- Colias arida is more yellow-orange than orange-red on the upper side of the wing in the male. The discoid spot on the hind wing is gray-brown. The discoid red spot on the underside of the hind wing has a small white point in its center.
- Colias eogene is more red-orange than orange-red on the upper side of the wing in the male. The submarginal black borders are narrower. The hind wing underside is greenish, sometimes with bluish veins.
- Colias stoliczkana is more yellow-orange than orange-red on the upper side of the wing in the male. The discoid red spot on the hind wing is missing. The submarginal spots are missing on the underside of the forewing, the underside of the hind wings is darker orange.
- Colias wanda syn. C. baeckeri has narrower submarginal black borders in the male.
habitat
Colias adelaidae flies from 3000 to 4500 meters altitude on exposed, moist slopes with herbaceous vegetation. The caterpillars feed on tragacanth ( astragalus ).
distribution
The nominate form occurs in China in the hills around the city of Labrang (35 ° 11'50 "N, 102 ° 30'36" E) in Xiahe County in the Gansu region. In Eastern Tibet it occurs in Nagong and around Shugden Gompa (29 ° 25'00 "N, 96 ° 50'11" E) and at the Posho or Pho-Cho River in Tibet, a few kilometers away.
Colias adelaidae karmalana is described from Karma La (La = pass) at an altitude of 4500 meters in the Tibetan province of Qamdo .
Taxonomy
The status of Colias adelaidae has not been established, it is closely related to Colias arida and was considered by Rose & Schulte (1992) as a subspecies thereof. Verhulst (2000), Hoshiai (1996) and Grieshuber (1999) regard them as a separate species.
supporting documents
literature
- Joseph T. Verhulst: Les Colias du Globe . 1 (texts - text). Goecke and Evers, Keltern 2000, ISBN 3-931374-15-7 .
- Josef Grieshuber, Bob Worthy, Gerardo Lamas: The Genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 . Jan Haugum's Annotated Catalog Of The Old World Colias (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Ed .: Munich Entomological Society. Tshikolovets Publications, Pardubice 2012, ISBN 978-80-904900-2-4 .
