Colias caucasica Staudinger, 1871

Franeta, Filip, 2018, Checklist of the butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Montenegro, Zootaxa 4392 (1), pp. 128-148 : 137

Colias caucasica Staudinger, 1871

—In Montenegro the species was first observed by Nicholl (1902) in the Tara gorge , however, no specimens could be sampled owing to the fast flight of the butterfly. In later surveys in the area of the Durmitor National park no specimens were observed ( Bretherton 1973; Cribb 1973; Sijarić et al. 1984; Švara et al. 2015) until it was rediscovered by Nahirnić et al. (2015). The species is also mentioned for Mt. Sinjajevina in Tolman & Lewington (2008), but the author could not find the source of this record. Colias caucasica was also observed from Mt. Komovi and Čakor pass (Franeta & Gascoigne-Pees pers. obs.) in the first half of July. In recent years several new populations have been discovered in Serbia ( Franeta & Đurić 2011) and the species was first reported for Croatia (Tvrtković et al. 2011).This species is probably much more widespread in the northern regions of Montenegro.