Colotis evenina

Common orange tip
	File:Common Orange Tip (Colotis evenina) female (32718355393).jpg
	A female of the nominate race and dry season form in the Kruger National Park
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colotis
Species:	C. evenina
Binomial name
	Colotis evenina; (Wallengren, 1857)
Synonyms
	Anthopsyche evenina Wallengren, 1857; Colotis (Colotis) evenina; Anthopsyche deidamia Wallengren, 1860; Calosune deidamioides Aurivillius, 1879; Callosune inornata Westwood, 1881; Teracolus corda Möschler, 1884; Teracolus evenina Butler, 1897; Colotis evenina f. lerichei van Son, 1959; Callosune casta Gerstaecker, 1871; Teracolus evenina var. sypilus ab. flavofasciata Neustetter, 1916; Teracolus liagore f. castina Le Cerf, 1924; Colotis evenina sipylus f. granti Talbot, 1939; Colotis evenina sipylus f. johnstonei Talbot, 1939; Colotis evenina sipylus f. canus Talbot, 1939; Colotis evenina sipylus f. andromorpha Talbot, 1942; Teracolus sipylus Swinhoe, 1884; Colotis antevippe ab. mathieui Dufrane, 1947; Teracolus confusus Le Doux, 1929; Colotis evenina xantholeuca f. ledouxi Talbot, 1939;

Colotis evenina, the common orange tip, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.

Description and habits

The wingspan is 38–45 mm in males and 35–42 mm in females. The adults fly year-round.^[2]

C. evenina lacks discocellular dots^[3] as seen here in C. antevippe, besides any dark venation.

The following subspecies are recognised:^[1]^[2]

C. e. evenina — Mozambique, southern and eastern Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, 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

^ ^a ^b Colotis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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