Colias electo
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| Colias electo | |
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| File:African clouded yellow (Colias electo pseudohecate) underside.jpg | |
| C. e. pseudohecate, Ethiopia | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. electo
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| Colias electo | |
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Colias electo, the African clouded yellow or lucerne butterfly, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in eastern and southern Africa, as well as Arabia. The habitat consists of temperate and montane grasslands.[2]
The wingspan is 35–40 millimetres (1.4–1.6 in) for males and 32–40 mm (1.3–1.6 in) for females. Adults are on the wing throughout the year, with a peak from April to August.[3]
The larvae feed on Medicago sativa, Trifolium, Vicia and Robinia pseudoacacia.
Subspecies
[edit | edit source]- C. e. electo (South Africa, southern Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia)
- C. e. hecate Strecker, 1900 (Angola, southern Zaire, northern Zambia and north-western Malawi)
- C. e. pseudohecate Berger, 1940 (Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, eastern Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia and northern Somalia)
- C. e. meneliki Berger, 1940 (central and northern Ethiopia and Eritrea)
- C. e. philbyi Berger, 1953 (southern and western Arabia)
- C. e. manengoubensis Darge, 1968 (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon)
References
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