Colotis doubledayi

Species of butterfly

Doubleday's tip

C. d. doubledayi, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Pieridae
Genus:  | Colotis
Species:  |

C. doubledayi

Binomial name
Colotis doubledayi

(Hopffer, 1862)[1]

Subspecies

* C. d. doubledayi
* C. d. angolanus Talbot, 1929
* C. d. flavulus Henning, Henning, Joannou & Woodhall, 1997

Synonyms

* Idmaeus doubledayi Hopffer, 1862
* Idmaeus vesta Trimen, 1862
* Idmais hewitsoni Kirby, 1871
* Teracolus doubledayi Butler, 1897

Colotis doubledayi, the Doubleday's tip or Doubleday's orange, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.[1][2]

The wingspan is 32–40 mm in males and 34–45 mm in females. The adults have two broods from September to October and April to May.[2]

The larvae feed on Maerua schinzii.[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Colotis at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ^ a b c Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

Taxon identifiers

Colotis doubledayi|

* Wikidata: Q2121112
* CoL: X8KL
* EoL: 184153
* GBIF: 1920386
* iNaturalist: 415401
* Insecta.pro: 16615
* IRMNG: 11095871
* IUCN: 161329858
* LepIndex: 175897
* Open Tree of Life: 3133513

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