''Colias phicomone'', the mountain clouded yellow, 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 ...
. It is found in the
Cantabrian Mountains, the
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees (; es, Pirineos ; french: Pyrénées ; ca, Pirineu ; eu, Pirinioak ; oc, Pirenèus ; an, Pirineus) is a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. It extends nearly from its union with the Cantabrian Mountains to C ...
, the
Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...
and the
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...
. It flies at altitudes of 900 to 2800 meters.
The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is 40–50 mm. The butterfly flies from June to August depending on the location.
(MHNT) Colias Phicomone - Pic d'Aneto Espagne - male dorsal.jpg, ''Colias phicomone'' ♂
(MHNT) Colias Phicomone - Pic d'Aneto Espagne - male ventral.jpg, ''Colias phicomone'' ♂ △
(MHNT) Colias Phicomone - Sestriere Italia - female dorsal.jpg, ''Colias phicomone'' ♀
(MHNT) Colias Phicomone - Sestriere Italia - female ventral.jpg, ''Colias phicomone'' ♂ △
The larvae feed on ''
'' species.
Subspecies
*''Colias phicomone phicomone'' (Alps, northern Carpathians, northern Italy)
*''Colias phicomone juliana''
Hospital, 1948 (Cantabria)
*''Colias phicomone oberthueri''
Verity, 909
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Events
By place
Britain
* King Edward the Elder and his sister, Princess Æthelflæd of Mercia, raid Danish ...
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*''Colias phicomone phila'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Kashmir)
External links
Butterflies of Europa
phicomone
Near threatened animals
Butterflies of Europe
Butterflies described in 1780
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