# Colotis

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***Colotis***, called **orange tips** or **Arabs**, is a genus of [butterflies](/source/Butterfly) of the subfamily [Pierinae](/source/Pierinae) found mainly in [Africa](/source/Africa) and south-western [Asia](/source/Asia).[1] The larvae of all *Colotis* species specialize on plants in the family [Capparaceae](/source/Capparaceae).

## Species

Listed alphabetically within subgroups:[2]

**Subgenus *Colotis*** Hübner, [1819]:

- *[Colotis amata](/source/Colotis_amata)* (Fabricius, 1775) –
- *[Colotis antevippe](/source/Colotis_antevippe)* (Boisduval, 1836) – large orange tip or red tip
- *[Colotis aurigineus](/source/Colotis_aurigineus)* (Butler, 1883) – African golden, Arab veined, or gold double-banded orange
- *[Colotis aurora](/source/Colotis_aurora)* (Cramer, [1780]) – plain orange tip
- *[Colotis auxo](/source/Colotis_auxo)* (Lucas, 1852) – sulphur orange tip or yellow orange tip
- *[Colotis calais](/source/Colotis_calais)* (Cramer, 1775) – topaz Arab
- *[Colotis celimene](/source/Colotis_celimene)* (Lucas, 1852) – lilac tip or magenta tip
- *[Colotis chrysonome](/source/Colotis_chrysonome)* (Klug, 1829) – golden Arab
- *[Colotis daira](/source/Colotis_daira)* (Klug, 1829) – black-marked orange tip
- *[Colotis danae](/source/Colotis_danae)* (Fabricius, 1775) – scarlet tip or crimson tip
- *[Colotis dissociatus](/source/Colotis_dissociatus)* (Butler, 1897)
- *[Colotis doubledayi](/source/Colotis_doubledayi)* (Hopffer, 1862) – Doubleday's tip
- *[Colotis elgonensis](/source/Colotis_elgonensis)* (Sharpe, 1891) – Elgon crimson tip
- *[Colotis ephyia](/source/Colotis_ephyia)* (Klug, 1829)
- *[Colotis erone](/source/Colotis_erone)* (Angas, 1849) – coast purple tip
- *[Colotis etrida](/source/Colotis_etrida)* (Boisduval, 1836) – (small) orange tip
- *[Colotis eucharis](/source/Colotis_eucharis)* (Fabricius, 1775) – plain orange tip or sulphur orange tip
- *[Colotis euippe](/source/Colotis_euippe)* (Linnaeus, 1758) – round winged orange tip
- *[Colotis eunoma](/source/Colotis_eunoma)* (Hopffer, 1855) – three spot crimson tip
- *[Colotis evagore](/source/Colotis_evagore)* (Klug, 1829) – desert orange tip, small orange tip or tiny orange tip
- *[Colotis evanthe](/source/Colotis_evanthe)* (Boisduval, 1836) – Madagascar orange-tip
- *[Colotis evanthides](/source/Colotis_evanthides)* (Holland, 1896)
- *[Colotis evenina](/source/Colotis_evenina)* (Wallengren, 1857) – common orange tip
- *[Colotis fausta](/source/Colotis_fausta)* (Olivier, 1804) – (large) salmon Arab
- *[Colotis guenei](/source/Colotis_guenei)* (Mabille, 1877) – Madagascar red-tip
- *[Colotis halimede](/source/Colotis_halimede)* (Klug, 1829) – yellow patch, white orange patch white, white and orange Halimede, or dappled white
- *[Colotis hetaera](/source/Colotis_hetaera)* (Gerstaecker, 1871) – crimson tip or coast purple tip
- *[Colotis hildebrandti](/source/Colotis_hildebrandti)* (Staudinger, 1885) – golden tip
- *[Colotis incretus](/source/Colotis_incretus)* (Butler, 1881)
- *[Colotis ione](/source/Colotis_ione)* (Godart, 1819) – Bushveld purple tip, (common) purple tip or violet tip
- *[Colotis lais](/source/Colotis_lais)* (Butler, 1876)
- *[Colotis liagore](/source/Colotis_liagore)* (Klug, 1829)
- *[Colotis mananhari](/source/Colotis_mananhari)* (Ward, 1870) – chevron white
- *[Colotis pallene](/source/Colotis_pallene)* (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld orange tip
- *[Colotis phisadia](/source/Colotis_phisadia)* (Godart, 1819) – blue-spotted Arab or variable colotis
- *[Colotis protractus](/source/Colotis_protractus)* Butler, 1876
- *[Colotis pleione](/source/Colotis_pleione)* (Klug, 1829) – orange patch white
- *[Colotis protomedia](/source/Colotis_protomedia)* (Klug, 1829) – yellow splendour
- *[Colotis regina](/source/Colotis_regina)* (Trimen, 1863) – large violet tip, regal purple tip, or queen purple tip
- *[Colotis rogersi](/source/Colotis_rogersi)* (Dixey, 1915) – Rogers' orange tip
- *[Colotis ungemachi](/source/Colotis_ungemachi)* (Le Cerf, 1922)
- *[Colotis venosa](/source/Colotis_venosa)* (Staudinger, 1885) – no patch white
- *[Colotis vesta](/source/Colotis_vesta)* (Reiche, 1849) – veined orange, veined tip, or veined golden Arab
- *[Colotis vestalis](/source/Colotis_vestalis)* (Butler, 1876) – white Arab
- *[Colotis zoe](/source/Colotis_zoe)* (Grandidier, 1867) – violet-tip

**Subgenus *Teracolus*** (Swainson, 1833):

- *[Colotis eris](/source/Colotis_eris)* (Klug, 1829) – banded gold tip or black-barred gold tip
- *[Colotis subfasciatus](/source/Colotis_subfasciatus)* (Swainson, 1833) – lemon traveller or lemon tip

**Subgenus *Cuneacolotis*** (Henning *et al.*, 1997):

- *[Colotis agoye](/source/Colotis_agoye)* (Wallengren, 1857) – speckled sulphur tip

**Subgenus *Gideona*** (Klots, 1933):

- *[Colotis lucasi](/source/Colotis_lucasi)* (Grandidier, 1867) – giant orange-tip

Status unknown:

- *Colotis fallax* (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa

## References

1. Woodhall, Steve (2005). *Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa*. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

1. [*Colotis*](http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/pierinae/colotis/) at Markku Savela's *Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms*

## External links

- [Pteron](http://www.pteron-world.com/topics/classfication/pieridae/pierinae/colotini/colotini1.html#colotis) Images
- [Seitz, A. *Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde* 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 16 et seq.](https://archive.org/stream/diegrossschmett13seit#page/n41/mode/2up)

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