Colotis eris

Banded gold tip

male C. e. eris, Kenya

female C. e. eris, South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colotis
Species:	C. eris
Binomial name
*Colotis eris* (Wallengren, 1857)^[1]
Synonyms
Pieris eris Klug, 1829 Colotis (Teracolus) eris Idmais fatma C. & R. Felder, [1865] Teracolus abyssinicus Butler, 1876 Idmais maimuna Kirby, 1880 Teracolus opalescens Butler, 1886 Teracolus johnstoni Butler, 1886 Idmais eris var. punctigera Lanz, 1896 Teracolus teitensis Sharpe, 1898 Teracolus eris var. erioides Strand, 1912 Colotis eris eris f. chlorinos Talbot, 1939 Colotis eris damara Talbot, 1939 Colotis eris ab. continua Storace, 1948

Colotis eris, the banded gold tip or black-barred gold tip, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.

The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The adults have fly year-round in warm areas, peaking from March to June.^[2]

The larva feed on Boscia albitrunca and Boscia oleoides.^[2]

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:^[1]

C. e. eris (Sub-Saharan Africa, including Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali, northern Nigeria, Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland)
C. e. contractus Gabriel, 1937-38 (Yemen, Oman)
?C. e. johnstoni (Butler, 1886)

1 2 Colotis, funet.fi
1 2 Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.

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