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Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Colias aurorina, the Greek clouded butterfly or dawn clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Greece, the Near East, the Caucasus, and in Iran and Turkmenistan.[1][2]
| Colias aurorina | |
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| Colias aurorina spp. transcaspica female dorsal side | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. aurorina |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias aurorina Herrich-Schäffer, 1850[1] | |
Colias aurorina is one of the largest species of the genus; the wingspan is 35–70 mm. The upperside of the male is dusky orange-yellow, with moderately broad blackish brown marginal band which is traversed at the apex by yellow veins, the rather large middle spot of the forewing being blackish brown and that of the hindwing large and orange-red. The ground-colour of the female is somewhat brighter red, the dark marginal band bearing large yellow spots, which on the hindwing form a proximally dark-edged band, the dark marginal band being obsolescent.[citation needed]
The butterfly flies from May to July.[2]
The larvae feed on Astracantha and Astragalus species.[2]
There are a number of subspecies:[1]
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