''Colotis'', called orange tips or Arabs, is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the subfamily

Pierinae The Pierinae are a large subfamily of pierid butterflies. The subfamily is one of several clades of butterflies often referred to as the whites. Species It includes the following species (additional species can be found under the tribes list ...

found mainly in

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and south-western

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. The larvae of all ''Colotis'' species specialize on plants in the family

Capparaceae The Capparaceae (or Capparidaceae), commonly known as the caper family, are a family of plants in the order Brassicales. As currently circumscribed, the family contains 33 genera and about 700 species. The largest genera are '' Capparis'' (about ...

Species

Listed alphabetically within subgroups:''Colotis''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' Subgenus ''Colotis'' Hübner,

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/small>: *'' Colotis amata'' (Fabricius, 1775) – topaz Arab or small salmon Arab *''

Colotis antevippe ''Colotis antevippe'', the red tip, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm. The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The adults fly year-round. The larvae feed on ''Boscia albitrunca'', ''Boscia oleoides'', ''Cappa ...

'' (Boisduval, 1836) – large orange tip or red tip *''

Colotis aurigineus ''Colotis aurigineus'', the African golden Arab, veined gold or double-banded orange, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in southern Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, northeastern Zaire, Malawi and northwest Zambia. The larva feeds on ''Maer ...

'' (Butler, 1883) – African golden, Arab veined, or gold double-banded orange *'' Colotis aurora'' (Cramer,

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– 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 ''Colotis hetaera'', the eastern purple tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Arabia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and North Africa. The habitat consists of savann ...

'' (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 ''Colotis pallene'', also known as the Bushveld orange tip, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae found in southern Africa. The wingspan is 28–35 mm. The adults fly year-round, peaking in late summer and autumn. The larvae feed on ''Capp ...

'' (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld orange tip *''

Colotis phisadia ''Colotis phisadia'', the blue-spotted Arab, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Arabia, the Near East an ...

'' (Godart, 1819) – blue-spotted Arab or variable colotis *''

Colotis protractus ''Colotis protractus'', the Blue Spotted Arab, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in North West India, Punjab (region), Punjab and Balochistan. Subspecies *''Colotis protractus protractus'' *''Colotis protractus semiramis'' Grum- ...

'' 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 ''Colotis vestalis'', the white Arab, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Pakistan, Iran, Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania. It has a wingspan of 4–5 cm. Descr ...

'' (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 sulphur tip Subgenus ''Gideona'' (Klots, 1933): *'' Colotis lucasi'' (Grandidier, 1867) – giant orange-tip Status unknown: *''Colotis fallax'' (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa

References

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Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 16 et seq.
{{Taxonbar, from=Q532473 Butterflies of Africa Pieridae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner