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The Round-winged Orange Tip〔 or Smoky Orange Tip.〔 (''Colotis euippe'') is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone. The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.〔Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.〕 The larva feed on ''Maerua'', ''Capparis'', ''Cadaba'', and ''Boscia'' species.〔 ==Subspecies== The following subspecies are recognised: * ''Colotis euippe euippe'' (Linnaeus, 1758) –Round-winged Orange Tip (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Angola) * ''Colotis euippe mediata'' Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe) * ''Colotis euippe omphale'' (Godart, 1819) –Smoky Orange Tip (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Comoros) * ''Colotis euippe complexivus'' (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia) * ''Colotis euippe exole'' (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen) * ''Colotis euippe mirei'' Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Colotis euippe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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