Colotis euippe
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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[3] (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)
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C. e. euippe, male
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C. e. omphale female, Maputo National Park, Mozambique
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Life cycle gallery
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Larva on Capparis sepiaria
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Larva
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Larva pupating
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Pupa
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Recently hatched from pupa
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Opening wings
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Wings open
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Underside
References
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