''Colias tamerlana'' 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 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 foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

(western Siberia, northern China, and Mongolia).

Description

It is a large and very dark member of the genus ''Colias''.

Biology

The larva feeds on '' Oxytropis oligantha''

Subspecies

*''C. t. tamerlana'' Xinjiang, Kirgizia (eastern Issyk Kul) *''C. t. mongola'' Alphéraky, 1897 Altai, Sayan *''C. t. sidonia'' Weiss, 1968 northern Mongolia

Taxonomy

It was accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas but may be a subspecies of ''

Colias nastes ''Colias nastes'', the Labrador sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. In Europe, it is found in the north of Norway and Sweden and on rare occasions in northern Finland. It is also found in North America, specifically in Alaska, Canada, ...

''.O. G. Gorbunov , 2012 On the nomenclature of ''Colias nastes mongola'' Alphéraky, 1897 and ''Colias tamerlana'' Staudinger, 1897 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) ''Entomological Review'' Volume 92, Issue 5, pp 559-564

References

Butterflies described in 1897 tamerlana Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Otto Staudinger {{Pieridae-stub