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 Hübner, [1819]:

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

Subgenus Teracolus (Swainson, 1833):

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

Subgenus Cuneacolotis (Henning et al., 1997):

• Colotis agoye (Wallengren, 1857) – speckled sulphur tip

Subgenus Gideona (Klots, 1933):

• Colotis lucasi (Grandidier, 1867) – giant orange-tip

Status unknown:

• Colotis fallax (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa

References

External links

• Pteron Images
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 16 et seq.