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Colias gigantea (Giant Sulphur)

Synonyms: Colias palaeno var. pelidneides

Wikipedia Abstract

Colias gigantea, the giant sulphur or giant northern sulfur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in North America. Its range includes Alaska across Canada to the east coast and Wyoming, Montana, and Oregon. Flight period is from June until early August. Wingspan is from 37 to 55 mm. Larvae feed on Salix spp.
View Wikipedia Record: Colias gigantea

Infraspecies

Colias gigantea gigantea
Colias gigantea harroweri
Colias gigantea mayi

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.811 inches (.046 m)

Prey / Diet

Salix eriocephala (Missouri willow)[2]
Salix reticulata (netted willow)[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3HOSTS - 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