Colotis evenina
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Species: | C. evenina
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Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857)[1]
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Colotis evenina, the common orange tip, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.
The wingspan is 38–45 mm in males and 35–42 mm in females. The adults have fly year round.[2]
The larva feed on Boscia albitrunca and Capparis species.[2]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:[1][2]
- C. e. evenina (Mozambique, southern and eastern Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho)
- C. e. sipylus (Swinhoe, 1884) (coast of Kenya, Tanzania, northern Zimbabwe)
- C. e. xantholeuca (Sharpe, 1904) (southern Uganda, central and south-western Kenya, central, northern and western Tanzania)
- C. e. casta (Gerstaecker, 1871) (northern Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, northern Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia)
References
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