Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
Taxonomy Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males."Julius Röber in Seitz, A. 1906 The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera Volume 1 The Palearctic Butterflies Stuttgart : Seitz'schen (Kernen) It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.
Subspecies Listed alphabetically: C. a. arida C. a. cakana Rose & Schulte, 1992 C. a. muetingi Rose & Schulte, 1992 C. a. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as Colias wanda
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