Colias chippewa
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Colias chippewa, the heath sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in North America and northeastern Asia. Its range includes Alaska across northern Canada, including all the territories, and as far east as Labrador.[http://www.cbif.gc.ca/spp_pages/butterflies/species/HeathSulphur_e.php Heath Sulphur], Butterflies of Canada and the Russian Far East.
Flight period is from mid-June until early August.
Larvae feed on Vaccinium uliginosum and Vaccinium caespitosum.[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/coliadinae/colias/index.html Colias] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Habitat
Bogs and tundras.
Taxonomy
Colias chippewa may be a subspecies of Colias palaeno see Grieshuber & Lamas, 2007;{{cite journal |author=Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas |year=2007 |title=A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) |journal=Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft |volume=97 |pages=131–171 |url=http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/body/content/departamentos/entomologia/entomologia/grieshuber_2007-Colias.pdf |access-date=2013-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083804/http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/body/content/departamentos/entomologia/entomologia/grieshuber_2007-Colias.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }} however, C. chippewa is considered a separate species from C. palaeno by Guppy and Shepard (2001)John Shepard, Crispin Guppy, 2001 Butterflies of British Columbia University of British Columbia Press. {{ISBN|9780774808095}}. on the basis of work by V. K. Tuzov (which they quote). He found that, in the Magadan region of Siberia, the two forms were sympatric but locally separated C. chippewa was restricted to stream-edges in dry tundra and C.palaeno was found only in low-elevation forested swamps.
Subspecies
- C. c. baffinensis Ebner & Ferris, 1978 Baffin Island.
- C. c. chippewa
- C. c. gomojunovae Korshunov, 1996 Russian Far East (Chukotka, Magadan) Korshunov, Y.P. 1996. Dopolneniya i ispravleniya k knige Dnevnye babochki Aziatskoi chasti Rossii [Supplements and corrections to the book Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia]. ETA Grp, Novosibirsk: 66 pp. (In Russian)
References
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External links
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- [http://rusinsects.com/c-chipp.htm Colias chippewa], Rusinsects
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Category:Butterflies of North America
Category:Insects of the Arctic
Category:Butterflies described in 1872
Category:Taxa named by William Henry Edwards
Category:Lepidoptera of the United States
Category:Lepidoptera of Canada
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