Английская Википедия:Colias electo
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Colias electo, the African clouded yellow or lucerne butterfly, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in eastern and southern Africa, as well as Arabia. The habitat consists of temperate and montane grasslands.[1]
The wingspan is Шаблон:Convert for males and Шаблон:Convert for females. Adults are on the wing throughout the year, with a peak from April to August.[2]
The larvae feed on Medicago sativa, Trifolium, Vicia and Robinia pseudoacacia.
Subspecies
- C. e. electo (South Africa, southern Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Zambia)
- C. e. hecate Strecker, 1900 (Angola, southern Zaire, northern Zambia and north-western Malawi)
- C. e. pseudohecate Berger, 1940 (Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, eastern Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia and northern Somalia)
- C. e. meneliki Berger, 1940 (central and northern Ethiopia and Eritrea)
- C. e. philbyi Berger, 1953 (southern and western Arabia)
- C. e. manengoubensis Darge, 1968 (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon)
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