Yellow Splendour Colotis protomedia

Yellow Splendour Colotis protomedia
Description:

This species is colored bright yellow Upperside with Black markings, yellow with orange veins underside the sexes are different; male characterize by black veins upperside which absent in female. 

Distribution:

 Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Yemen.

Distribution in Sudan: 

It is very common and widespread thought central of Sudan east to red sea hills and north along Nile valley up to Atbara.

Habitat:

Mainly dry savannah but also found in agricultural fields and gardens.

Colotis protomedia. female - upperside
Colotis protomedia. male - upperside
Colotis protomedia. underside
Colotis protomedia. underside

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