• Local names

• Language	Vernacular name
  English	Orange Patch Tip

• Synonyms and other combinations

• Latin name	Author
  Pontia pleione	Klug, 1829

• Subspecies

• Species	Author
  Colotis (C.) pleione heliocaustus	(Butler, 1886)
  Colotis (C.) pleione nilus	Talbot, 1942
  Colotis (C.) pleione pleione	(Klug, [1829])

• Colotis (C.) pleione is a member of the clade Colotis-group IX:

• Species	Author
  Colotis (C.) elgonensis	(Sharpe, 1891)
  Colotis (C.) erone	(Angas, 1849)
  Colotis (C.) eunoma	(Hopffer, 1855)
  Colotis (C.) halimede	(Klug, [1829])
  Colotis (C.) hetaera	(Gerstaecker, 1871)
  Colotis (C.) ione	(Godart, [1819])
  Colotis (C.) mananhari	(Ward, 1870)
  Colotis (C.) pleione	(Klug, [1829])
  Colotis (C.) protomedia	(Klug, [1829])
  Colotis (C.) regina	(Trimen, 1863)
  Colotis (C.) venosa	(Staudinger, [1885])

• Links

• Language	Website	Authors
  	African Butterfly Database

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