''Colotis euippe'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

of the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

that is found in the Afrotropical realm. The

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is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round. The

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e feed on ''

Maerua ''Maerua'' is a genus of plants in the family Capparaceae, with its centre of diversity in Africa, though some species extend their range as far north as the Levant, and as far east as the Indian subcontinent and mainland Southeast Asia. Among i ...

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Capparis ''Capparis'' is a flowering plant genus, comprising around 250 species in the family Capparaceae which is included in the Brassicaceae in the unrevised APG II system. These plants are shrubs or lianas and are collectively known as caper shrubs ...

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Cadaba ''Cadaba'' is a genus of shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. ...

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Boscia ''Boscia'' is a genus of plants in the family ''Capparaceae''. It contains the following species: *''Boscia albitrunca'' (Burch) Gilg & Ben. *''Boscia angustifolia'' A. Rich. *'' Boscia arabica'' Pestalozii *'' Boscia caffra'' Sond. *'' Boscia ...

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Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised: * ''C. e. euippe'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – round-winged orange tip (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola) * ''C. e. mediata'' Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe) * ''C. e. omphale'' (Godart, 1819) – smoky orange tip (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros) * ''C. e. complexivus'' (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia) * ''C. e. exole'' (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen) * ''C. e. mirei'' Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad) Round-winged orange tip (Colotis euippe euippe) male underside.jpg, ''C. e. euippe'', male
Shai Hills Resource Reserve,

Ghana Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in Ghana–Ivory Coast border, the west, Burkina ...

Round-winged orange tip (Colotis euippe complexivus) male underside.jpg, ''C. e. complexivus'', male

Semliki Wildlife Reserve The Semliki Wildlife Reserve is a conservation protected area in the Western Region of Uganda with headquarters at Karugutu in Ntoroko District. Geography Semliki Wildlife Reserve is located in Kabarole and Ntoroko districts, in the Toro s ...

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...

Smoky orange tip (Colotis euippe omphale) male.jpg, ''C. e. omphale'' male,

iSimangaliso Wetland Park iSimangaliso Wetland Park (previously known as the Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park) is situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, about 235 kilometres north of Durban by road. It is South Africa's third-largest protected area, ...

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Life cycle gallery

Image:Smoky_Orange_Tip_larva_07_11_2010_2.JPG, Larva on ''

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References

euippe Euippe or Evippe (Ancient Greek: Εὐίππη; English translation: "good mare") is the name of eight women in Greek mythology: * Euippe, a daughter of Danaus and the naiad Polyxo. She married (and murdered) Imbrus, son of Aegyptus and Calia ...

Butterflies described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Lepidoptera of Cape Verde Butterflies of Africa {{Pieridae-stub