''Colias regia'' is a
butterfly in the family
Pieridae. It is found in the East
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
(
Kyrgyzstan west into
Tajikistan,
Tian Shan, and northern China).
Description
''C. regia'' Gr.-Grsh. (26 d), from Southern
Fergana
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, is magnificently golden red, with a very feeble violet sheen in the male and a stronger gloss in the female; the black marginal band not very broad, dusted with yellow, the middle spot of the forewing black, that of the hindwing red and inconspicuous. In the female the black distal margin is somewhat broader, bearing yellow spots at the apex of the forewing, the hindwing having small red obsolescent spots in the posterior portion of the band. The underside of the male is beautifully greenish yellow, with few markings, a black middle spot on the forewing and a brownish-edged one of mother-of-pearl colour on the hindwing; the underside of the hindwing darker in the female, the forewing being proximally beautifully golden red.
Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas
References
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Rusinsects
Butterflies described in 1887
regia
Butterflies of Asia
Taxa named by Grigory Grum-Grshimailo
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