Colotis euippe is a butterfly of the family Pieridae that is found in the Afrotropical realm.
Description
The wingspan is 35âÂÂ45 mm. The adults fly year-round.
Adults in Witsand offer reduced black markings in their summer forms, differing from specimens from other regions.
Habitat and behavior
The larvae feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- C. e. euippe <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> â round-winged orange tip (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola)
- C. e. mediata <small>Talbot, 1939</small> (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe)
- C. e. omphale <small>(Godart, 1819)</small> â smoky orange tip (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros)
- C. e. complexivus (<small>Butler, 1886)</small> (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia)
- C. e. exole <small>(Reiche, 1850)</small> (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
- C. e. mirei <small>Bernardi, 1960</small> (Tibesti Mountains in Chad)
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