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Colotis chrysonome (Golden Arab)

Wikipedia Abstract

Colotis chrysonome, the golden Arab tip, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the Mauritania, northern Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, the central and eastern part of the Sahara, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, southern Arabia, northern Uganda, Kenya, northern Tanzania, Israel and Jordan. The habitat consists of arid savanna. The wingspan is 33–38 mm. Adults have a distinctive orange-golden colour. The forewings of the males have a white base. The larvae feed on Maerua species.
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Prey / Diet

Maerua crassifolia[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0