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Colotis

Colotis, called orange tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and south-western Asia. The larvae of all Colotis species specialize on plants in the family Capparaceae.

Species

Listed alphabetically within subgroups:

Subgenus Colotis <small>Hübner, [1819]</small>:

  • Colotis amata <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> –
  • Colotis antevippe <small>(Boisduval, 1836)</small> – large orange tip or red tip
  • Colotis aurigineus <small>(Butler, 1883)</small> – African golden, Arab veined, or gold double-banded orange
  • Colotis aurora <small>(Cramer, [1780])</small> – plain orange tip
  • Colotis auxo <small>(Lucas, 1852)</small> – sulphur orange tip or yellow orange tip
  • Colotis calais <small>(Cramer, 1775)</small> – topaz Arab
  • Colotis celimene <small>(Lucas, 1852)</small> – lilac tip or magenta tip
  • Colotis chrysonome <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – golden Arab
  • Colotis daira <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – black-marked orange tip
  • Colotis danae <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> – scarlet tip or crimson tip
  • Colotis dissociatus <small>(Butler, 1897)</small>
  • Colotis doubledayi <small>(Hopffer, 1862)</small> – Doubleday's tip
  • Colotis elgonensis <small>(Sharpe, 1891)</small> – Elgon crimson tip
  • Colotis ephyia <small>(Klug, 1829)</small>
  • Colotis erone <small>(Angas, 1849)</small> – coast purple tip
  • Colotis etrida <small>(Boisduval, 1836)</small> – (small) orange tip
  • Colotis eucharis <small>(Fabricius, 1775)</small> – plain orange tip or sulphur orange tip
  • Colotis euippe <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – round winged orange tip
  • Colotis eunoma <small>(Hopffer, 1855)</small> – three spot crimson tip
  • Colotis evagore <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – desert orange tip, small orange tip or tiny orange tip
  • Colotis evanthe <small>(Boisduval, 1836)</small> – Madagascar orange-tip
  • Colotis evanthides <small>(Holland, 1896)</small>
  • Colotis evenina <small>(Wallengren, 1857)</small> – common orange tip
  • Colotis fausta <small>(Olivier, 1804)</small> – (large) salmon Arab
  • Colotis guenei <small>(Mabille, 1877)</small> – Madagascar red-tip
  • Colotis halimede <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – yellow patch, white orange patch white, white and orange Halimede, or dappled white
  • Colotis hetaera <small>(Gerstaecker, 1871)</small> – crimson tip or coast purple tip
  • Colotis hildebrandti <small>(Staudinger, 1885)</small> – golden tip
  • Colotis incretus <small>(Butler, 1881)</small>
  • Colotis ione <small>(Godart, 1819)</small> – Bushveld purple tip, (common) purple tip or violet tip
  • Colotis lais <small>(Butler, 1876)</small>
  • Colotis liagore <small>(Klug, 1829)</small>
  • Colotis mananhari <small>(Ward, 1870)</small> – chevron white
  • Colotis pallene <small>(Hopffer, 1855)</small> – Bushveld orange tip
  • Colotis phisadia <small>(Godart, 1819)</small> – blue-spotted Arab or variable colotis
  • Colotis protractus <small>Butler, 1876</small>
  • Colotis pleione <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – orange patch white
  • Colotis protomedia <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – yellow splendour
  • Colotis regina <small>(Trimen, 1863)</small> – large violet tip, regal purple tip, or queen purple tip
  • Colotis rogersi <small>(Dixey, 1915)</small> – Rogers' orange tip
  • Colotis ungemachi <small>(Le Cerf, 1922)</small>
  • Colotis venosa <small>(Staudinger, 1885)</small> – no patch white
  • Colotis vesta <small>(Reiche, 1849)</small> – veined orange, veined tip, or veined golden Arab
  • Colotis vestalis <small>(Butler, 1876)</small> – white Arab
  • Colotis zoe <small>(Grandidier, 1867)</small> – violet-tip

Subgenus Teracolus <small>(Swainson, 1833)</small>:

  • Colotis eris <small>(Klug, 1829)</small> – banded gold tip or black-barred gold tip
  • Colotis subfasciatus <small>(Swainson, 1833)</small> – lemon traveller or lemon tip

Subgenus Cuneacolotis <small>(Henning et al., 1997)</small>:

  • Colotis agoye <small>(Wallengren, 1857)</small> – speckled sulphur tip

Subgenus Gideona <small>(Klots, 1933)</small>:

  • Colotis lucasi <small>(Grandidier, 1867)</small> – giant orange-tip

Status unknown:

  • Colotis fallax <small>(Wichgraf, 1913)</small>, described from East Africa

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