- Colias tyche
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Booth's Sulphur 
Female 
Male Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Pieridae Tribe: Coliadini Genus: Colias Species: C. tyche Binomial name Colias tyche
(de Böber, 1812)Synonyms - Colias melinos Eversmann, 1847
The Booth's Sulphur or Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow (Colias tyche) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Baffin Island west along the Hudson Bay and arctic coasts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories mainland and the southern tier of Arctic Islands to northern Yukon, Alaska, and Eurasia.[1]
The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.[1]
The larvae feed on legume species.
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Subspecies
- Colias tyche tyche (northern Eurasia)
- Colias tyche relicta (Chukot Peninsula, Far East)
- Colias tyche werdandi (northern Europe)
- Colias tyche magadanica (Magadan)
- Colias tyche flinti (Wrangel Island)
- Colias tyche olga (East Chukotka)
- Colias tyche boothii
- Colias tyche thula (Alaska and in Canada on Banks, Victoria and Melville Islands)
Both Colias tyche boothii (Booth's Sulphur) and Colias tyche thula (Thula Sulphur) are treated as valid species by some authors.
Similar species
- Hecla Sulphur (C. hecla)
- Labrador Sulphur (C. nastes)
References
- ^ a b c Booth's Sulphur, Butterflies of Canada
External links
- Booth's Sulphur, Neactica.com
- Booth's Sulphur, Alaska, Butterflies and moths of North America
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