endemitPapilio phegea Borkhausen, 178 Colias alexandra - Queen Alexandra's Sulphur in euroleps.ch, © Heiner Ziegler
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Colias alexandra EDWARDS, 1863 Queen Alexandra's SulphurPapilionoidea
Pieridae
Coliadinae
Coliadini
  • Verbreitung / Range
    • W-USA, SW-Canada.

  • Biologie / Life History

    • Flugzeit: 5-8

    Lebenszyklus: 1 Generation/Jahr

    Habitat: Strassenränder, Wiesen

    Biologie: Raupen an Astragalus, Lupinus, Trifolium

  • Systematik / Systematology
    • Locus typicus
    USA, Colorado, W. Denver, Pike's Peak
    Erstbeschreib
    Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, 2:14, pl. 9, figs. 1-3.
    Taxonomie
  • alexandra W. EDWARDS, 1863: Verbreitung: N-New Mexico, Colorado, E-Utah, Wyoming, S-Idaho, E-Montana, W-Nebraska, W-South und North Dakota, bis Alberta (Canada.
    - - ° alba STRECKER, 1878.

  • altamont KONDLA & KOHLER, 2006.

  • altiplano FISHER & SCOTT, 2006.

  • apache FERRIS, 1988: LT = USA, Arizona Apache Co, 13 miles E. Mc Nary.

  • astraea W. EDWARDS, 1872: LT = USA, Wyoming, Yellowstone Lake.

  • columbiensis FERRIS, 1973: LT = Canada, British Columbia, Anderson, D'Arcy Lake.

  • edwardsii W. EDWARDS, 1870: LT = USA, Nevada, Storey Co., Virginia City.
    - - ° hatui BARNES & BENJAMIN, 1926.
    - Syn.: emilia W. EDWARDS, 1870.

  • pseudocolumbiensis GUPPY & SHEPARD, 2001: LT = Canada, British Columbia, Hall Creek at hwy. 33.

    Status der erwähnten Taxa unklar. Nach KOHLER (2006) ist edwardsii eine Bona species, astraea deren Unterart.
  • Präparate Colias alexandra
    • altamontCanada, Alberta, Rocky Mountains, Letbridge, 30.Juli 1990, leg. J.REICHEL. Männchen.
    Depositum
    Coll.Dr.H.ZIEGLER, Naturhistorisches Museum Bern (Schweiz)
  • Quellen
  • Edwards, W. H. (1870): Descriptions of New Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera found within the United States - Transactions of the American Entomological Society 3: 10-22
  • GRIESHUBER, J. & LAMAS, G. (2007): A Synonymic List of the Genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lep.: Pieridae) – Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 97: 131-171
  • KOHLER, S. (2006): In: SCOTT, J. A. et al., Taxonomic studies and new taxa of North American butterflies.
  • Verhulst, Joseph T. (2000): Les Colias du Globe. Monograph of the Genus Colias. Goecke & Evers, Keltern.
  • Butterflies and Moths of North America
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