''Colias wanda'' 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 ...
(northern China).
Subspecies
*''Colias wanda wanda''
*''Colias wanda paskoi''
Kocman, 1999
*''Colias wanda yangguifei''
Huang & Murayama, 1992
Taxonomy
It was accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber and Gerardo Lamas,
but it may be a subspecies of ''
Colias arida'' Alphéraky, 1889
References
External links
J. Fuchs''Colias wanda'' images
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
''Colias wanda paskoi'' images
at Bold
''Colias wanda wanda'' images
at Bold
Butterflies described in 1907
wanda
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