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Colias phicomone

Mountain Clouded Yellow

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Valais, Switzerland, July 2006

 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2005

Courting

 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2005

 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2005

 

Valais, Switzerland, July 2005

 

Valais, Switzerland, June 2003

 

Female, Valais, Switzerland, June 2003
 

Female, Valais, Switzerland, June 2003

Rare moment to see the upperside as the butterfly flits from one flower to another.

 

This is a high mountain butterfly only found in the Cantabrian mountains, Pyrenees, Alps and a small part of the Romanian Carpathians. It is clearly a member of the Clouded Yellow family but is one of the palest yellow and most heavily dusted with grey scales. I usually associate it with similar places to the Moorland Clouded Yellow, Colias palaeno with which I have found it flying. Just as palaeno, it flies fast and erratically over open grassy areas where it can be very hard to get close to.

 

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