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Colias tyche (Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow)

Synonyms: Colias melinos var. herzi; Colias nastes werdandi; Colias werdandi; Papilio tyche (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Colias tyche, the Booth's sulphur or pale Arctic clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Baffin Island west along the Hudson Bay and arctic coasts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories mainland and the southern tier of Arctic Islands to northern Yukon, Alaska, and Eurasia. The wingspan is 28–43 mm. The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location. The larvae feed on legume species.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.378 inches (.035 m)

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Astragalus alpinus (Alpine Milkvetch)[3]

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.
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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