Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae
Author
Liseki, Steven D.
Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania; & School of Anthropology and Conservation, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
Author
Vane-Wright, Richard I.
School of Anthropology and Conservation, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; & Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK; & Geographical and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
text
Journal of Natural History
2014
2014-04-28
48
25 - 26
1543
1583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.886343
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2014.886343
1464-5262
5193830
Colotis daira jacksoni
(Sharpe, 1890)
Larsen 1996
: pl. 7, figs 68 i, ii.
d’ Abrera 1997: 83
(1 fig.). SI: Figure 7a–h.
Forewing length: male 12.0–
19.5 mm
(mean (
n
= 6)
16.72 mm
,
SD
= 2.133); female 14.0–19.0 mm (mean (
n
= 8)
16.21 mm
,
SD
= 1.299).
Records.
North East
Tanzania
(
Kielland 1990
, p.56) and eastern
Kenya
. Neither
Kielland (1990)
nor
Larsen (1996)
gives an altitude range, but the latter described it as “a typical savannah species” (
Larsen 1996
, p.135). Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna on the basis of material from
Taveta
and a single female from Kilimanjaro in BMNH. Recorded from
Taveta
by
Rogers (1913
, p.99).
Males vary in the amount of black, and females are notably variable in ground colour, named forms including “jacksoni” (male-like: whitish with orange apical tip to upperside forewing), “arusa” (yellow with upperside orange tip) and “flavidus” (yellow without upperside orange tip). Beyond East Africa, this small species occurs from Arabia to
Nigeria
(
Ackery et al. 1995
, p.186).