Species: Colias eurytheme
Orange Sulphur
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mandibulata
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Pieridae
Genus
Colias
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
coliade de la luzerne
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies and Moths - Butterflies and Skippers
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mandibulata - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Pieridae - Colias - , but not close to randomly. Great normal variation. Spring forms with reduced orange are not hybrids southward. Spring form adults where the January mean is more than a degree below freezing are generally male hybrids most years.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Butterfly, Pieridae.
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2006-11-27
Global Status Last Changed
1998-09-01
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Most of North America; rarer in subtropical Florida, Canada, Alaska, and the coastal Northwest. Nearly lacks any diapause but is very cold tolerant in all stages except egg, and this species occurs year round where the January mean is above zero Celsius or just below, e.g most of Kentucky, extreme southern Pennsylvania and perhaps half of New jersey in the east.. An abundant summer resident hundreds of km farther north.
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)