Colias chippewa, the heath sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in North America and northeastern Asia. Its range includes Alaska across northern Canada, including all the territories, and as far east as Labrador.[1] and the Russian Far East.
| Heath sulphur | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. chippewa
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| Binomial name | |
| Colias chippewa W.H. Edwards, 1872
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Flight period is from mid-June until early August.[1]
Wingspan is from 32 to 45 mm.[1]
Larvae feed on Vaccinium uliginosum and Vaccinium caespitosum.[1][2]
Habitat edit
Bogs and tundras.
Taxonomy edit
Colias chippewa may be a subspecies of Colias palaeno see Grieshuber & Lamas, 2007;[3] however, C. chippewa is considered a separate species from C. palaeno by Guppy and Shepard (2001)[4] on the basis of work by V. K. Tuzov (which they quote). He found that, in the Magadan region of Siberia, the two forms were sympatric but locally separated C. chippewa was restricted to stream-edges in dry tundra and C.palaeno was found only in low-elevation forested swamps.
Subspecies edit
Listed alphabetically.[2]
- C. c. baffinensis Ebner & Ferris, 1978 Baffin Island.
- C. c. chippewa
- C. c. gomojunovae Korshunov, 1996 Russian Far East (Chukotka, Magadan) [5]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Heath Sulphur, Butterflies of Canada
- ^ a b Colias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas (2007). "A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 97: 131–171. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-12.
- ^ John Shepard, Crispin Guppy, 2001 Butterflies of British Columbia University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 9780774808095.
- ^ Korshunov, Y.P. 1996. Dopolneniya i ispravleniya k knige Dnevnye babochki Aziatskoi chasti Rossii [Supplements and corrections to the book Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia]. ETA Grp, Novosibirsk: 66 pp. (In Russian)
External links edit
- Colias chippewa, Rusinsects
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