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Colias hecla (artic sulphur)

Synonyms: Colias sulitelma (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Colias hecla, the northern clouded yellow or hecla sulphur, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. In Europe, it is found in the northern part of Norway, Sweden and Finland up to heights of 900 m. It is also found in Greenland, Alaska, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, Quebec, Labrador, Manitoba, the Chukot region, eastern Chukotka, and the Far East. The wingspan is 36–46 mm. The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.535 inches (.039 m)

Prey / Diet

Predators

Calidris alba (Sanderling)[2]
Plectrophenax nivalis (Snow Bunting)[2]

Consumers

External References

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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.
3Mosquin, T., and J. E. H. Martin. 1967. Observations on the pollination biology of plants on Melville Island, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Field Naturalist 81:201-205.
4Insect-flower associations in the high Arctic with special reference to nectar., Hocking, B. 1968. Oikos 19:359-388
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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