Colotis aurora

Colotis aurora
Male
Two female forms
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colotis
Species:	C. aurora
Binomial name
Colotis aurora (Cramer, 1780)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio aurora Cramer, 1780 Colotis (Colotis) aurora Papilio eucharis Fabricius, 1775 Pontia evarne Klug, 1829 Teracolus citreus Butler, 1876 Teracolus xanthevarne Butler, 1876 Teracolus philippsi Butler, 1886 Teracolus evarne philippsi f. sharpei Aurivillius, 1910 Teracolus evarne f. extrema Niepelt, 1937 Colotis eucharis f. butleri Stoneham, 1939 Colotis eucharis f. mambrui Stoneham, 1939 Colotis eucharis f. xanthecolus Stoneham, 1939 Colotis eucharis f. albescens Stoneham, 1939 Colotis auxo harrarensis Dufrane, 1947 Colotis auxo harrarensis ab. maureli Dufrane, 1947

Colotis aurora, the sulphur orange tip or plain orange-tip, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, southern Arabia, Asia, India and Sri Lanka.^[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

The larvae feed on Capparis, Maerua and Cadaba species.

Subspecies

• Colotis aurora aurora (Asia, India, Sri Lanka)
• Colotis aurora evarne (Klug, 1829) (Mauritania, northern Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, northern Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, southern Arabia)

In the United Arab Emirates

References

1. Colotis, Site of Markku Savela
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Colotis group

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 15