Blue Spotted Arab

Colotis phisadia, the blue-spotted Arab, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Kuwait, Uganda, Arabia, the Near East and India. Description Upperside of male forewing has a pale salmon-pink ground colour, this colour paler outwardly; base heavily irrorated (sprinkled) with bluish-grey scales that extend outwards and are merged with a black patch that occupies the apex of the cell and spreads along the discocellulars; terminal third of wing black with enclosed…

Aucune description en français n’est encore disponible.

Colotis es un género de mariposas de la familia Pieridae (subfamilia Pierinae, tribu Colotini). Incluye 3 subgéneros, 49 especies y 87 subespecies, que se distribuyen por África, India, Ceilan, Rodesia, Madagascar, Líbano, Siria, Israel, Turquía, Afganistán, Baluchistan, Chad, Etiopía, Golfo Pérsico y Arabia. ​ Especies Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) Colotis aurora (Cramer, 1780) Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) Colotis bacchus (Butler, 1888) Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) Colotis daira…