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Pale Clouded Yellow

Colias hyale

Checklist Number
58.011 [B&F: 1543]

Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification

Classification

Family:Pieridae
Subfamily:Coliadinae
Genus:Colias
Species:hyale
Authority:(Linnaeus, 1758)

Locally common, in flower meadows and farmland; 0-1800 m throughout much of northern Europe. An uncommon but regular immigrant especially in the 1940s, thereafter only recorded very rarely. A very rare immigrant to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 42-50 mm. Very similar to f. helice of Clouded Yellow and Berger's Clouded Yellow. Larva feeds on Lucerne.