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Tips
Colotis
Colotis, called orange tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and south-western Asia. The larvae of all Colotis
species specialize on plants in the family Capparaceae.
48 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Small Salmon Arab
speciesColotis amata
Round-winged Orange Tip
speciesColotis euippe
Banded Scarlet Tip
speciesColotis danae
Desert Orange Tip
speciesColotis evagore
Blue-Spotted Arab
speciesColotis phisadia
Plain Orange-tip
speciesColotis aurora
Large Salmon Arab Tip
speciesColotis fausta
Little Orange-tip
speciesColotis etrida
Scarlet Tip
speciesColotis annae
Topaz Arab Tip
speciesColotis calais
Bushveld Purple Tip
speciesColotis ione
Veined Tip
speciesColotis vesta
Sulphur Orange Tip
speciesColotis auxo
Red Tip
speciesColotis antevippe
Common Orange Tip
speciesColotis evenina
Queen Purple Tip
speciesColotis regina
African Golden Arab
speciesColotis aurigineus
Bushveld Orange Tip
speciesColotis pallene
Colotis evanthe
speciesColotis evanthe
Lilac Tip
speciesColotis celimene
Golden Arab Tip
speciesColotis chrysonome
Colotis evarne
speciesColotis evarne
Eastern Purple Tip
speciesColotis hetaera
Doubleday's Tip
speciesColotis doubledayi
Malagasy Lilac Tip
speciesColotis zoe
Yellow Splendor
speciesColotis protomedia
Desert Orange Tip
speciesColotis liagore
Colotis mananhari
speciesColotis mananhari
Colotis guenei
speciesColotis guenei
Blue-spotted Arab
speciesColotis protractus
coast purple tip
speciesColotis erone
Orange Patch White
speciesColotis halimede
Kalahari orange tip
speciesColotis lais
Black-marked Orange Tip
speciesColotis daira
Colotis incretus
speciesColotis incretus
Three Spot Crimson Tip
speciesColotis eunoma
Colotis eucharis
speciesColotis eucharis
Kilimanjaro Arab Tip
speciesColotis castalis
Colotis elgonensis
speciesColotis elgonensis
Colotis ungemachi
speciesColotis ungemachi
Colotis pleione
speciesColotis pleione
Somalia Large Lilac Tip
speciesColotis praeclarus
Small Sahel Orange Tip
speciesColotis ephyia
Colotis mirei
speciesColotis mirei
Colotis ocellatus
speciesColotis ocellatus
Congo Orange Tip
speciesColotis hecqi
No Patch White
speciesColotis venosa
Rogers' Orange Tip
speciesColotis rogersi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 68484.