Colotis daira: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pieridae
- Genus
- Colotis
- Species
- Colotis daira
- Scientific Name
- Colotis daira
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Colotis daira
Colotis daira, the black-marked orange tip, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Nigeria, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of dry savanna.
Both sexes are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Capparis and Cadaba species.
...Colotis daira in languages:
- English
- Black-marked Orange Tip
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Colotis amata
- Colotis annae
- Colotis antevippe
- Colotis aurigineus
- Colotis aurora
- Colotis australis
- Colotis auxo
- Colotis calais
- Colotis castalis
- Colotis celimene
- Colotis chrysonome
- Colotis daira
- Colotis danae
- Colotis doubledayi
- Colotis elgonensis
- Colotis ephyia
- Colotis erone
- Colotis etrida
- Colotis eucharis
- Colotis euippe
- Colotis eunoma
- Colotis evagore
- Colotis evanthe
- Colotis evarne
- Colotis evenina
- Colotis fausta
- Colotis guenei
- Colotis halimede
- Colotis hetaera
- Colotis incretus
- Colotis ione
- Colotis lais
- Colotis liagore
- Colotis mananhari
- Colotis mirei
- Colotis muansa
- Colotis ocellatus
- Colotis pallene
- Colotis phisadia
- Colotis protomedia
- Colotis protractus
- Colotis puellaris
- Colotis regina
- Colotis ungemachi
- Colotis vesta
- Colotis zoe