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series of large terminal fuscous spots that correspond to the black spots on the upperside. Both forewing and hindwings with black discocellular dots. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black; antennae speckled with white on the sides, head and thorax clothed with short greyish-brown hairs; beneath the palpi, thorax and abdomen white.
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Underside is pure white in most specimens, suffused, except on the disc of the forewing, with pinkish yellow, and at base of the same wing with pure sulphur yellow; apical orange patch and black terminal markings on the upperside of the forewing show through by transparency, the former crossed by a
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band that ends in a black diffuse spot. Hindwing is shaded with ochraceous at base and with a fuscous preapical spot on costa, also a few scattered transverse fuscous striations and small spots. Many specimens have the preapical spot continued as an obscure fuscous band across the wing and bear a
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566:, the latter nearly up to the tornus, edged and festooned beyond the orange area with black. Hindwing of the male has black spots at the apices of the veins that vary in size and end on the termen, also a diffuse preapical black spot on the costa.
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Underside: markings similar to but very much broader, more heavily marked, and more prominent than those in the male; the transverse fuscous strife and dots more numerous. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in the male.
607:(Mauritania, northern Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, northern Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, southern Arabia)
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698:"Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Colotis group"
497:, 1775. This happened because Fabricius incorrectly placed
365:. It is found in Asia and Africa. The nominate subspecies,
538:, instead of correcting the incorrectly imposed name (
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988:. Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah). pp. 425–428.
724:"Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera of Western Saudi Arabia"
490:. But many authors incorrectly mentioned this as
1008:. London: Lovell Reeve and Co. pp. 129–131.
684:A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India
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526:to this species. To resolve this confusion,
982:Drury, Dru; Westwood, John Obadiah (1773).
968:Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire naturelle
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848:Fauna of British India. Butterflies Vol. 2
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812:Fauna of British India. Butterflies 1
760:Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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660:Cramer, 1780 – Plain Orange-Tip"
623:List of butterflies of Sri Lanka
443:Democratic Republic of the Congo
63:
965:Godart, Jean Baptiste (1789).
482:This species was described by
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1175:Butterflies described in 1780
664:Butterflies of India, v. 2.24
1005:Lepidoptera Indica. Vol. VII
618:List of butterflies of India
1195:Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
682:Varshney, R.; Smetacek, P.
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243:Teracolus evarne philippsi
874:The Lepidoptera of Ceylon
756:(Cramer, [1780])"
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60:Scientific classification
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1185:Butterflies of Sri Lanka
914:Linné, Carl von (1758).
871:Moore, Frederic (1880).
598:(Asia, India, Sri Lanka)
456:The habitat consists of
377:. The other subspecies,
328:Colotis auxo harrarensis
320:Colotis auxo harrarensis
722:Pittaway, Tony (2015).
506:, 1773 as a synonym of
546:reverted this change.
1190:Butterflies of Africa
602:Colotis aurora evarne
596:Colotis aurora aurora
464:. The larvae feed on
379:Colotis aurora evarne
367:Colotis aurora aurora
227:Teracolus xanthevarne
16:Species of butterfly
951:Systema entomologiæ
934:Systema entomologiæ
851:. pp. 268–269.
809:Talbot, G. (1939).
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235:Teracolus philippsi
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300:xanthecolus
117:Lepidoptera
1169:Categories
733:2018-04-06
708:2012-05-01
634:References
590:Subspecies
391:the Gambia
383:Mauritania
214:Klug, 1829
97:Arthropoda
654:Saji, K.
536:epicharis
521:same name
495:Fabricius
462:shrubland
375:Sri Lanka
359:butterfly
312:albescens
145:Species:
83:Kingdom:
77:Eukaryota
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783:(1780).
612:See also
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513:Linnaeus
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423:Ethiopia
363:Pieridae
186:Synonyms
127:Pieridae
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87:Animalia
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560:gamboge
458:savanna
447:Somalia
411:Nigeria
387:Senegal
357:, is a
332:maureli
288:mambrui
276:butleri
259:extrema
247:sharpei
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138:Colotis
133:Genus:
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107:Insecta
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419:Sudan
407:Benin
403:Ghana
371:India
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