''Colias viluiensis'', is a

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in the family

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. It is found in

Transbaikalia Transbaikal, Trans-Baikal, Transbaikalia ( rus, Забайка́лье, r=Zabaykal'ye, p=zəbɐjˈkalʲjɪ), or Dauria (, ''Dauriya'') is a mountainous region to the east of or "beyond" (trans-) Lake Baikal at the south side of the eastern Si ...

Description

Pale orange-yellow, with rather narrow distal margin, light-centred middle spot on the forewing and very large, reddish-brown-edged middle spot on the hindwing. Underside pale yellow; hindwing dusted with greenish, the distal margins being pale blackish, the middle spot of the forewing having a light-coloured centre and the large white middle spot of the hindwing being double and edged with black; female red or white, hindwing sometimes almost black.

Subspecies

*''C. v. viluiensis'' *''C. v. dahurica'' Austaut, 1899 *''C. v. heliophora'' Churkin & Grieshuber, 2001 Chukotka

Taxonomy

Treated as a subspecies of '' Colias hecla'' by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas, who point out that the spelling ''viluensis'' was used by Ménétriés in his earliest published description.

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Darwin Museum

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images of ''Colias viluiensis heliophora'' Churkin et Grieshuber, 2001
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viluiensis Butterflies described in 1859 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Édouard Ménétries {{Pieridae-stub