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词条 Colias marcopolo
释义

  1. Description

  2. Biology

  3. Biotope

  4. Subspecies

  5. Etymology

  6. References

  7. External links

{{Italic title}}{{Taxobox
| name = Marco Polo's colias
| image = Colias_marcopolo_male.jpg
| image_caption = Male
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Arthropoda
| classis = Insecta
| ordo = Lepidoptera
| familia = Pieridae
| genus = Colias
| species = C. marcopolo
| binomial = Colias marcopolo
| binomial_authority = (Grum-Grshimailo, 1888)
| synonyms =
  • Colias marcopolo f. diana Schulte, 1989
  • Colias nicopolo Röber, [1907]

}}Colias marcopolo, the Marco Polo's colias, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Pamir Mountains the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan.[1]

Description

Colias marcopolo is one of the smaller species. Upperside of male pale sulphur yellow, with a not very broad greyish black distal marginal band and a nonconspicuous large yellow spot on the hindwing, but without a black middle spot on the forewing. Underside of forewing dirty yellow, with greyish-green distal margin; hindwing darker greyish green, with whitish middle spot. The female is yolk colour above and below, the distal marginal band being broader and having the inner edge diffuse, the forewing bearing yellow submarginal spots. The form with brighter yellow upperside, narrower dark distal margins and a black middle spot on the forewing above and below, is named ab.? nicolopolo.

Biology

The larva feeds on species of Astragalus.

Biotope

A montane species found between 3000 and 5000 metres a.s.l.

Subspecies

  • C. m. marcopolo Pamirs, Hindukush
  • C. m. afganipolo Schulte, 1977 Afghanistan
  • C. m. kushana Wyatt & Omoto, 1966 Afghanistan

Etymology

The species is named for Marco Polo.

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/coliadinae/colias/index.html |title=Colias |publisher=Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms }}

External links

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  • Colias marcopolo images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life (Photographs of syntype in Zoologische Staatssammlung München).
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4 : Colias|Butterflies described in 1888|Butterflies of Asia|Taxa named by Grigory Grumm-Grzhimaylo

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