Colotis lais (Butler, 1876)

Terblanche, Reinier F., 2023, Colotis lais (Butler, 1876) and Colotis euippe omphale (Godart, [1819]) use Cadaba aphylla (Thunb.) Wild LC as a host-plant at Tswalu Kalahari, Northern Cape Province, South Africa), Metamorphosis 34 (1), pp. 105-112 : 108

Description of C. lais and C. euippe omphale pupa from Tswalu Kalahari

C. lais pupa ( Fig. 11 ). Moderately keeled ventrally; thorax dorsally moderately convex. Pointed, short cephalic projection. Pupa not upcurved; axis rather straight. Background colour brownish-white with light orangebrown tones in some areas; irrorated with black dots dorsally, wing-cases with single discocellular spot and a series of faint black markings at the outer margin of the wing cases.

C. euippe omphale pupa ( Fig. 12 ). Characteristics correspond to those described by Clark vide Van Son moderately convex; head rather broad with acute conical (1949): Strongly compressed laterally, thorax dorsally cephalic projection; background colour green or light brown. Pupa strongly keeled ventrally.

Figures

Figure 11 – Pupa of Colotis lais. This pupa was reared from a larva collected on 19 September 2022 on a Cadaba aphylla shrub C aphy 13, north of the Dedeben Research Centre, Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa. The CRG reference number for this pupa is RFT22H43. Photo: R.F. Terblanche.

Figure 12 – Pupa of Colotis euippe omphale. This pupa was reared from a larva collected on 19 December 2021 on Cadaba aphylla shrub C aphy 14, north of the Dedeben Research Centre, Tswalu Kalahari, South Africa. The CRG reference number for this pupa is RFT21H79. Photo: R.F. Terblanche.