Colias crocea (Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785)

Common names

🇬🇧 Clouded Yellow
🇫🇷 Souci

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Coliadinae
Genus: Colias
Species: Colias crocea

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Photographs

img/colias-crocea.webp — Colias crocea

img/colias-crocea-2.webp — Colias crocea foraging on a flower of Knautia arvernensis

Sources

van Swaay, C., Wynhoff, I., Verovnik, R., Wiemers, M., López Munguira, M., Maes, D., Sasic, M., Verstrael, T., Warren, M., & Settele, J. (2010). Colias crocea (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2010. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/174313/7048501