Colotis euippe
# Colotis euippe

Colotis euippe is a butterfly of the family Pieridae that is found in the Afrotropical realm.

The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.

The larvae feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.

## Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

* C. e. 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 the Congo, northern Angola)
* C. e. mediata Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe)
* C. e. omphale (Godart, 1819) – smoky orange tip (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Comoros)
* C. e. complexivus (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia)
* C. e. exole (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
* C. e. mirei Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad)
* C. e. euippe, male Shai Hills Resource Reserve, Ghana
* C. e. complexivus, male Semliki Wildlife Reserve, Uganda
* C. e. omphale male, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

## Life cycle gallery

* Larva on Capparis sepiaria
* Larva
* Larva pupating
* Pupa
* Recently hatched from pupa
* Opening wings
* Wings open
* Underside
