Colotis celimene celimene (Lucas, 1852)

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2014, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae, Journal of Natural History 48 (25 - 26), pp. 1543-1583 : 1554-1555

Colotis celimene celimene (Lucas, 1852)

Larsen 1996: pl. 6, figs 52 i,ii. d’ Abrera 1997: 75 (3 figs). SI: Figure 14a–d.

Forewing length: male 17.0– 23.5 mm (mean (n = 5) 20.42 mm, SD = 2.329); female 22–25.5 mm (mean (n = 5) 23.98 mm, SD = 1.043).

Records. Arid parts of the Northern Highlands, 700–2000 m, including Serengeti, Morogoro, below Image Mountain, Ruaha Gorge, Ufipa and Mpanda ( Kielland 1990, p.56). Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna based on a specimen in BMNH collected on West Kilimanjaro at about 900 m. Recorded from Taveta by Rogers (1913, p.99). Outside Tanzania this subspecies occurs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya (Tsavo, Suk, Kibwezi, Emali, Rift Valley, Nanyuki) and Malawi.

This species, although not particularly variable in colour pattern compared with may other Colotis species , appears to be very variable in size.

GROUP VIII