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Colias heos

Synonyms: Colias aurora thia; Colias aurora vespera; Papilio aurora

Wikipedia Abstract

Colotis aurora, the sulphur orange tip or plain orange-tip, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, southern Arabia, Asia, India and Sri Lanka. The habitat consists of savanna. The larvae feed on Capparis, Maerua and Cadaba species.
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Prey / Diet

Trifolium lucanicum[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