• Source: Colias aurorina

Colias aurorina, the Greek clouded butterfly or dawn clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Greece, the Near East, the Caucasus, and in Iran and Turkmenistan.




Description


Colias aurorina is one of the largest species of the genus; the wingspan is 35–70 mm. The upperside of the male is dusky orange-yellow, with moderately broad blackish brown marginal band which is traversed at the apex by yellow veins, the rather large middle spot of the forewing being blackish brown and that of the hindwing large and orange-red. The ground-colour of the female is somewhat brighter red, the dark marginal band bearing large yellow spots, which on the hindwing form a proximally dark-edged band, the dark marginal band being obsolescent.




Biology


The butterfly flies from May to July.
The larvae feed on Astracantha and Astragalus species.




Subspecies


There are a number of subspecies:

C. a. aurorina – Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Talysh, N. Iran, Turkey
C. a. libanotica Lederer, 1858 – Israel, Lebanon, Turkey
C. a. heldreichi Staudinger, 1862 – Greece
C. a. anna Gerhard, 1882 – Daghestan, Armenia
C. a. transcaspica Christoph, 1889 – Turkmenistan (Kopet-Dagh, W. Transcaspia)
C. a. taurica Rebel, 1901 – Turkey
C. a. rosei Gross & Ebert, 1975 – N. Iran (Elburs)
C. a. kermana Eckweiler, 1979 – Iran (Kerman)
C. l. sovarensis Blom, 1979 – Iran
C. a. lauta Morgun, 2010 – Russian Caucasus (Elburs)




References






External links



Butterflies of Europe
Butterfly Conservation Armenia

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Colias aurorina
• Colias
• Colias croceus
• List of butterflies of Armenia
• Arevik National Park
• Ara (mountain)
• List of Lepidoptera of Greece
• List of butterflies of Azerbaijan
• List of butterflies of Russia
• List of butterflies of Europe (Pieridae)