''Colotis evenina'', the common orange tip, 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
Afrotropical realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
.
Description and habits
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 38–45 mm in males and 35–42 mm in females. The adults fly year-round.
[Larsen, Torben B., 1991: 'The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History'] as seen here in '' C. antevippe'', besides any dark venation.
The
larva
A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle.
The ...
e feed on ''
Boscia albitrunca'' and ''
Capparis
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'' species.
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Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:[''Colotis'']
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''[
*''C. e. evenina'' — Mozambique, southern and eastern Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho
*''C. e. sipylus'' (Swinhoe, 1884) — coast of Kenya, Tanzania, northern Zimbabwe
*''C. e. xantholeuca'' (Sharpe, 1904) — southern Uganda, central and south-western Kenya, central, northern and western Tanzania
*''C. e. casta'' (Gerstaecker, 1871) — northern Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, northern Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia
]
References
External links
Images representing ''Colotis evenina''
at BOLD
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Methods and use
The most common methods in W ...
Butterflies described in 1857
evenina
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