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Colotis evagore (Desert Orange Tip)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Colotis evagore, the desert orange tip, small orange tip, or tiny orange tip, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the dry parts of tropical Africa, northern Africa, southern Spain and southwest Arabia. The wingspan is 28–35 mm in males and 28–38 mm in females. The adults fly from February to August depending on the range. The larva feed on Maerua, Capparis and Cadaba species.
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Prey / Diet

Capparis spinosa (caper)[1]
Maerua angolensis (Bead-bean Tree)[1]
Tarenaya spinosa (spiny spiderflower)[2]

External References

Citations

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.
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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