Colias crocea Fourcroy, 1785

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Colias crocea Fourcroy, 1785

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for Italian ( Balletto et al. 2015), Mediterranean ( Numa et al. 2016) and European assessments ( Van Swaay et al. 2010).

Distribution

It is distributed in North Africa, central and south Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Iran, central-west Asia, central and south Urals ( Tolman and Lewington 2008). It can be found in mainland Italy, Sardinia and Sicily ( Villa et al. 2009).

Notes

Eurycora and migratory species, it lives in open environments such as prairies, alpine pastures and cultivated areas, from the plain to 2000 m a.s.l. Trivoltine species with generations in April-May, June-July and August-September ( Paolucci 2013, Villa et al. 2009).