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Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow
Colias tyche
Colias tyche, the Booth's sulphur or pale Arctic clouded yellow, 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.
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Description
The wingspan is 28–43 mm. is a small to medium-sized Colias butterfly with pale green to greenish-white or greenish-yellow wings, more or less suffused with grey-green in the basal part of the hindwings and very visible brown veins. The dark borders are wider in the female and encompass a submarginal line of pale yellow spots bordered with black in the male, black spotted with yellow in the female. Colias philodice vitabunda females are often white.The underside is greenish very marked with dark scales.
In human culture
Named in the Classical tradition. Tyche is the deity of chance and luck in Greek mythology.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 217399.