Vilyuyskaya jaundice [1] [2] ( lat. Colias viluiensis ) is a diurnal butterfly from the genus Colias of the jaundice family. A taxon can be considered as an independent species, or as a subspecies of Colias hecla [1] [3] .
| Vilyuysky jaundice |
Female |
| Scientific classification |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
| Subtype : | Tracheo-breathing |
| Infraclass : | Winged insects |
| Treasure : | Fully Transformed Insects |
| Squadron : | Amphiesmenoptera |
| Infrastructure : | Butterflies |
| Treasure : | Double-breasted |
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| International scientific name |
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Colias viluiensis Menetries , 1859 |
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Fore wing length 18-23 mm. The male’s wings are orange on top with a dark marginal border, narrower on the hind wings (a number of yellow spots pass on the female on the border). The color of the veins is almost indistinguishable from the general background of the wings. In contrast to the close East Siberian taxon Colias hyperborea , the male lacks bright orange androconial fields at the root of the hind wings. Females have two color forms: orange-red and orange-yellow. Hind wings of females on top with a sharp orange spot.
The Putorana Plateau, Yakutia , Magadan Oblast , Baikal , Transbaikalia , the Bureinsky Range , Northeastern Mongolia , and possibly Northeast China [1] .
Butterflies inhabit steppe slopes, meadow plots in larch forests and on southern slopes, mountain meadows and tundra. Develops in one generation in a year. Flight time from late June to late July [1] . Unlike the closely related species, Colias heos , less often sits on flowers. They prefer flowers of plants of the legume family, on which caterpillars develop [4] [5] .
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Key to insects of the Far East of Russia. T. V. Caddis flies and lepidopterans. Part 5 / under the general. ed. P.A. Lera . - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2005 .-- 575 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 5-8044-0597-7 .
- ↑ Kurentsov A.I. Mace Lepidoptera of the Far East of the USSR. (Determinant). - L .: Nauka, 1970 .-- 165 p.
- ↑ Grieshuber J., Lamas G. (2007). A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 97: 131-171.
- ↑ Gordeev S. Yu. Day Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera, Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) of the Upper Amur Midlands: author. dis. ... cand. biol. sciences. - Novosibirsk, 2006
- ↑ Small Encyclopedia of Transbaikalia: Natural Heritage / ch. ed. R. F. Geniatulin. - Novosibirsk: Nauka, 2009 .-- 698 p.
