Colias tamerlana | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Colias |
Species: | C. tamerlana
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Binomial name | |
Colias tamerlana Staudinger, 1897 [1]
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Colias tamerlana is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm (western Siberia, northern China, and Mongolia).
It is a large and very dark member of the genus Colias.
The larva feeds on Oxytropis oligantha
It was accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas[2] but may be a subspecies of Colias nastes.[3]