title: Colotis
text: # Colotis
  
  Colotis, called orange tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and south-western Asia. The larvae of all Colotis species specialize on plants in the family Capparaceae.
  
  ## Species
  
  Listed alphabetically within subgroups:
  
  Subgenus Colotis Hübner, [1819]:
  
  * Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) – topaz Arab or small salmon Arab
  * Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) – large orange tip or red tip
  * Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) – African golden, Arab veined, or gold double-banded orange
  * Colotis aurora (Cramer, [1780]) – plain orange tip
  * Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) – sulphur orange tip or yellow orange tip
  * Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) – lilac tip or magenta tip
  * Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) – golden Arab
  * Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) – black-marked orange tip
  * Colotis danae (Fabricius, 1775) – scarlet tip or crimson tip
  * Colotis dissociatus (Butler, 1897)
  * Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862) – Doubleday's tip
  * Colotis elgonensis (Sharpe, 1891) – Elgon crimson tip
  * Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
  * Colotis erone (Angas, 1849) – coast purple tip
  * Colotis etrida (Boisduval, 1836) – (small) orange tip
  * Colotis eucharis (Fabricius, 1775) – plain orange tip or sulphur orange tip
  * Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round winged orange tip
  * Colotis eunoma (Hopffer, 1855) – three spot crimson tip
  * Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829) – desert orange tip, small orange tip or tiny orange tip
  * Colotis evanthe (Boisduval, 1836) – Madagascar orange-tip
  * Colotis evanthides (Holland, 1896)
  * Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857) – common orange tip
  * Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) – (large) salmon Arab
  * Colotis guenei (Mabille, 1877) – Madagascar red-tip
  * Colotis halimede (Klug, 1829) – yellow patch, white orange patch white, white and orange Halimede, or dappled white
  * Colotis hetaera (Gerstaecker, 1871) – crimson tip or coast purple tip
  * Colotis hildebrandti (Staudinger, 1885) – golden tip
  * Colotis incretus (Butler, 1881)
  * Colotis ione (Godart, 1819) – Bushveld purple tip, (common) purple tip or violet tip
  * Colotis lais (Butler, 1876)
  * Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
  * Colotis mananhari (Ward, 1870) – chevron white
  * Colotis pallene (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld orange tip
  * Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) – blue-spotted Arab or variable colotis
  * Colotis protractus Butler, 1876
  * Colotis pleione (Klug, 1829) – orange patch white
  * Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829) – yellow splendour
  * Colotis regina (Trimen, 1863) – large violet tip, regal purple tip, or queen purple tip
  * Colotis rogersi (Dixey, 1915) – Rogers' orange tip
  * Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922)
  * Colotis venosa (Staudinger, 1885) – no patch white
  * Colotis vesta (Reiche, 1849) – veined orange, veined tip, or veined golden Arab
  * Colotis vestalis (Butler, 1876) – white Arab
  * Colotis zoe (Grandidier, 1867) – violet-tip
  
  Subgenus Teracolus (Swainson, 1833):
  
  * Colotis eris (Klug, 1829) – banded gold tip or black-barred gold tip
  * Colotis subfasciatus (Swainson, 1833) – lemon traveller or lemon tip
  
  Subgenus Cuneacolotis (Henning et al., 1997):
  
  * Colotis agoye (Wallengren, 1857) – speckled sulphur tip
  
  Subgenus Gideona (Klots, 1933):
  
  * Colotis lucasi (Grandidier, 1867) – giant orange-tip
  
  Status unknown:
  
  * Colotis fallax (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa
  