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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) – • 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 calais (Cramer, 1775) – topaz Arab • 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 ==References==
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