Colias chlorocoma
Colias chlorocoma is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Transcaucasia, Turkey and Iran. Taxonomy. Originally described as "Colias chlorocoma" Christoph, 1888. Röber considered "C. chlorocoma" to be an apparently very rare, local form of "Colias libanotica"- ""C". "chlorocoma" Christ., from Southern Armenia (Kasikoparan), is presumably a local form of "libanotica" ; it is large, the ground-colour being greenish in the male, white in the female. Apparently very rare." Treated as a species of "Colias" Fabricius, 1807 by Tuzov et al. Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas consider that "C. chlorocoma" is very closely related to and possibly conspecific with  Colias sagartia but androconial spots are rare in "chlorocoma" and males have yellow spots in the marginal band. The flight, the biotopes, and the foodplants of the two taxa are identical. "C. chlorocoma" is rather variable, in particular the green wing pigmentation differs from population to population but is usually greenish-yellow, "C. sagartia" is greenish. Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. treat all the subspecies as junior synonyms