Colias tyche
Colias tyche, the Booth's sulphur or pale Arctic clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. 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.[1]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. tyche |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias tyche (de Böber, 1812) | |
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The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.[1]
The larvae feed on legume species.
Subspecies
- C. t. tyche (northern Eurasia)
- C. t. antonkozlovi Yakovlev, 2020 (Russia, Northern Siberia, Taimyr Peninsula, Plateau Putorana)
- C. t. relicta Kurentzov, 1970 (Chukot Peninsula, Far East)
- C. t. werdandi Zetterstedt, 1839 (northern Europe)
- C. t. magadanica Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (Magadan)
- C. t. flinti Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (Wrangel Island)
- C. t. olga Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (East Chukotka)
- C. t. boothii Curtis, 1835 (Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, Banks Island, Alaska)
- C. t. thula Hovanitz, 1955 (Alaska and in Canada on Banks, Victoria and Melville Islands) may be a full species.
Both of the Nearctic subspecies C. t. boothii (Booth's sulphur) and C. t. thula (Thula sulphur) are treated as valid species by some authors.
Similar species
- Hecla sulphur (C. hecla)
- Labrador sulphur (C. nastes)
References
- Booth's Sulphur, Butterflies of Canada
- Sources
- Churkin, S., Grieshuber, J ., Bogdanov, P. & Zamolodchikov, D. (2001). Taxonomic notes on Colias tyche Böber, 1812 and Colias nastes Boisduval, 1832 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) from the Russian Far East with the descriptions of new subspecies. Helios 2:103-116, pls.8-10.
- Churkin, S., Grieshuber, J ., Bogdanov, P. & Zamolodchikov, D. (2001). Ein Ersatzname für eine kürzlich beschriebene Unterart von Colias tyche Böber, 1912 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Atalanta 32(1/2):262-263.
External links
- Booth's sulphur, Neactica.com
- Booth's sulphur, Alaska, Butterflies and moths of North America
- State Darwin Museum Darwin Museum type specimen images of Colias tyche olga Churkin, Greishuber, Bogdanov et Zamolodchikov, 2001
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