''Colias sagartia'' 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 ...

of 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 Elburz mountains in northern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

and the mountains of north-western Iran. 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 48–54 mm. Adults are on wing from June to July in one generation per year. The larvae feed on '' Acantholimon'' and '' Astragalus'' species.

Gallery

File:Colias sagartia.JPG, Male File:Colias sagartia female.JPG, Female File:Colias sagartia underside.JPG, Underside of the wings

References

Butterflies described in 1869

sagartia ''Sagartia'' is a genus of sea anemones in the family Sagartiidae. The genus was first described by Philip Henry Gosse in 1855 and the image is his painting of several species found in British waters included in his book, ''A history of the Brit ...

Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Julius Lederer {{Pieridae-stub