Colotis agoye

Speckled sulphur tip
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colotis
Species:	C. agoye
Binomial name
	Colotis agoye; (Wallengren, 1857)
Synonyms
	Anthopsyche agoye Wallengren, 1857; Teracolus agoye Butler, 1897; Anthocharis eosphorus Trimen, 1863; Teracolus bowkeri Trimen, 1883; Teracolus zephyrus Marshall, 1897;

Colotis agoye, the speckled sulphur tip, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.

The wingspan is 30–44 mm in males and 32–45 mm in females. The adults fly year-round in warm areas, peaking from March to June.^[2]

The larva feed on Boscia and Cadaba species.^[2]

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:^[1]

C. a. agoye (Mozambique, southern Zimbabwe, northern and eastern Botswana, northern Namibia South Africa)
C. a. bowkeri (Trimen, 1883) (south-western Botswana, southern Namibia, South Africa)
C. a. zephyrus (Marshall, 1897) (Ethiopia, Somalia)

^ ^a ^b Colotis, funet.fi
^ ^a ^b Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.

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