Colotis

Colotis
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Colotis danae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Subfamily:	Pierinae
Tribe:	Colotini
Genus:	Colotis Hübner, [1819]
Species
see text
Synonyms
Teracolus Swainson, [1833] Idmais Boisduval, 1836 Callosune Doubleday, [1847] Anthopsyche Wallengren, 1857 Ptychopteryx Wallengren, 1857 Thespia Wallengren, 1858 Calicharis Oberthür, 1876 Gideona Klots, 1933 Cuneacolotis Henning et al., 1997

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Scarlet Tip (C. danae) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

File:Small Orange-Tip (Colotis etrida) W IMG 0156.jpg

Small Orange-tip (C. etrida) in Narsapur, Medak district, India.

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Veined Tip (C. vesta) Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Colotis, called Orange Tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and southwestern Asia.

Species

Listed alphabetically within subgroups.

Subgenus Colotis Hübner, [1819]:

• Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) – Topaz Arab or Small Salmon Arab
• Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) – Large Orange Tip or Red Tip
• Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) – African Golden, Arab Veined, or Gold Double-banded Orange
• Colotis aurora (Cramer, [1780]) – Plain Orange Tip
• Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) – Sulphur Orange Tip or Yellow Orange Tip
• Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) – Lilac Tip or Magenta Tip
• Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) – Golden Arab
• Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) – Black-Marked Orange Tip
• Colotis danae (Fabricius, 1775) – Scarlet Tip or Crimson Tip
• Colotis dissociatus (Butler, 1897)
• Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862) – Doubleday's Tip
• Colotis elgonensis (Sharpe, 1891) – Elgon Crimson Tip
• Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis erone (Angas, 1849) – Coast Purple Tip
• Colotis etrida (Boisduval, 1836) – (Small) Orange Tip
• Colotis eucharis (Fabricius, 1775) – Plain Orange Tip or Sulphur Orange Tip
• Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Round Winged Orange Tip
• Colotis eunoma (Hopffer, 1855) – Three Spot Crimson Tip
• Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829) – Desert Orange Tip, Small Orange Tip or Tiny Orange Tip
• Colotis evanthe (Boisduval, 1836) – Madagascar Orange-Tip
• Colotis evanthides (Holland, 1896)
• Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857) – Common Orange Tip
• Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) – (Large) Salmon Arab
• Colotis guenei (Mabille, 1877) – Madagascar Red-Tip
• Colotis halimede (Klug, 1829) – Yellow Patch, White Orange Patch White, White and Orange Halimede, or Dappled White
• Colotis hetaera (Gerstaecker, 1871) – Crimson Tip or Coast Purple Tip
• Colotis hildebrandti (Staudinger, 1885) – Golden Tip
• Colotis incretus (Butler, 1881)
• Colotis ione (Godart, 1819) – Bushveld Purple Tip, (Common) Purple Tip or Violet Tip
• Colotis lais (Butler, 1876)
• Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis mananhari (Ward, 1870) – Chevron White
• Colotis pallene (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld Orange Tip
• Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) – Blue-spotted Arab or Variable Colotis
• Colotis protractus Butler, 1876
• Colotis pleione (Klug, 1829) – Orange Patch White
• Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829) – Yellow Splendour
• Colotis regina (Trimen, 1863) – Large Violet Tip, Regal Purple Tip, or Queen Purple Tip
• Colotis rogersi (Dixey, 1915) – Rogers' Orange Tip
• Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922)
• Colotis venosa (Staudinger, 1885) – No Patch White
• Colotis vesta (Reiche, 1849) – Veined Orange, Veined Tip, or Veined Golden Arab
• Colotis vestalis (Butler, 1876) – White Arab
• Colotis zoe (Grandidier, 1867) – Violet-Tip

Subgenus Teracolus (Swainson, 1833):

• Colotis eris (Klug, 1829) – Banded Gold Tip or Black-barred Gold Tip
• Colotis subfasciatus (Swainson, 1833) – Lemon Traveller or Lemon Tip

Subgenus Cuneacolotis (Henning et al., 1997):

• Colotis agoye (Wallengren, 1857) – Speckled Sulfur Tip

Subgenus Gideona (Klots, 1933):

• Colotis lucasi (Grandidier, 1867) – Giant Orange-Tip

Status Unknown:

• Colotis fallax (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa.

External links

• Pteron Images
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 16 et seq.