''Colias arida '' is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...

found in

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are other ethnic groups s ...

and western

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Taxonomy

Treated as a form of '' Colias eogene'' by Röber and described as "paler than ''eogene'', the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations ''aurithetne'' Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and ''wanda'' Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males." It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically: *''C. a. arida'' *''C. a. cakana'' Rose & Schulte, 1992 *''C. a. muetingi'' Rose & Schulte, 1992 *''C. a. wanda'' Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as '' Colias wanda''

References

arida Butterflies described in 1889 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Sergei Alphéraky {{Pieridae-stub