Colias sareptensis

Colias sareptensis
Berger's Clouded Yellow
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. sareptensis
Binomial name
Colias sareptensis
Staudinger, 1871
Synonyms

Colias alfacariensis Berger, 1948
Colias australis Verity, 1911

Berger's Clouded Yellow (Colias sareptensis) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It was separated from the Pale Clouded Yellow, C. hyale, in 1945.

Specimen

The food plants are Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa and Crown Vetch, Coronilla varia.

This is species is a rare vagrant to Britain.

The caterpillar that forms into this butterfly is green with some black spines on the top. As it matures and prepares to pupate it turns yellow in color.

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