''Colias arida '' is a

butterfly 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 ...

in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

found in

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa people, ...

and western

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Taxonomy

Treated as a form of ''

Colias eogene ''Colias eogene'', the fiery clouded yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India. See also *List of butterflies of India *List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) This is a list o ...

'' by Röber and described as "paler than ''eogene'', the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations ''aurithetne'' Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and ''wanda'' Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males." It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically: *''C. a. arida'' *''C. a. cakana'' Rose & Schulte, 1992 *''C. a. muetingi'' Rose & Schulte, 1992 *''C. a. wanda'' Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as ''

Colias wanda ''Colias wanda'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the f ...

References

arida Butterflies described in 1889 Butterflies of Asia {{Pieridae-stub