Colias alfacariensis Ribbe, 1905

Della Rocca, Francesca, Stefanelli, Silvia, Cardarelli, Elisa, Bogliani, Giuseppe & Bracco, Francesco, 2021, Contribution to the knowledge of the arthropods community inhabiting the winter-flooded meadows (marcite) of northern Italy, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 57889-57889 : 57889

Colias alfacariensis Ribbe, 1905

Ecological interactions

Conservation status

Least Concern for Italian ( Balletto et al. 2015), Mediterranean ( Numa et al. 2016) and European assessments ( Van Swaay et al. 2010).

Distribution

It is distributed in south and central Europe and Turkey ( Tolman and Lewington 2008). It can be found in mainland Italy, Sardinia and Sicily ( Villa et al. 2009).

Notes

Thermophilic migratory species, it is found in arid grasslands, stony grasslands and rocky slopes from the plain at 1900 m a.s.l. Trivoltine species with generations in April-May, June-July and August-September ( Paolucci 2013, Villa et al. 2009).