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Dark Clouded Yellow
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Dark Clouded Yellow

Colias fieldii

Colias fieldii, the dark clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in southern Iran, India, southern China, Indochina, and Ussuri.

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Description

Charles Thomas Bingham (1907) gives a detailed description:

Race fieldi, Ménétriés ♂.Upperside deep cadmium orange-yellow.Fore wing : a patch of greenish-black scales at extreme base, a pear-shaped black spot on the discocellulars and a broad terminal black border; the last occupies about a fourth of the wing and has its inner margin curved slightly and irregularly crenulate, broader at apex and the tornus than in the middle; the end portions of veins 6, 7, 9 and 10 subterminally pale and conspicuous on the black of the apex. Hind wing : a thin covering of long soft hairs at base, beneath which is a dusting of black scales that is continued outwards along the posterior half of the wing; dorsum broadly pale yellow; terminal border broadly black, broadest in the middle, its inner margin crenulate; discocellular spot large, consisting of a small patch on which the ground-colour is paler and brighter and that encloses two somewhat obscure dusky rings, the upper one minute. Cilia of both fore and hind wings broadly salmon-pink. …

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