Colias
Colias est genus papilionum subfamiliae Coliadinarum familiae Pieridarum, in America endemicus. Genus artissime cognatum est Zerene, quod aliquando in Coliadem digeritur. Hoc genus per Oecozonam Holarcticam invenitur, inter quam regiones arcticae. Singuli etiam in Africa, Sinis, et India habitant.

Larvae quibusdam Fabaceis, exempli gratia Viciis, vescuntur. Aliae species hominibus sunt utiles quia herbas inutiles destruunt; aliae aliquando sunt molestae quia Medicaginis sativae et aliarum frugum pestes fiunt. In nonnullis speciebus, alis marum est clarissima repercutio lucis ultraviolet, cum alis feminarum non est.

Plurimae huius generis species, ut in plurimis Coliadinis, venena vel alias compositas noxias ex plantis acceptas intra eorum corpora non habent. Eae ergo sunt gratiosa insectivororum praeda, contra species generis Pieridis subfamiliae cognatae Pierinarum, quibus sunt agiliores et praedatores melius defugere possunt.<ref>Robert B. Srygley et Joel G. Kingsolver (1998) Red-wing blackbird reproductive behaviour and the palatability, flight performance, and morphology of temperate pierid butterflies (Colias, Pieris, and Pontia), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 64(1):41–55, DOI 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1998.tb01532.x.</ref>

Notabiles lepidopterologistae qui multas huius generis investigationes facerunt sunt J. Malcolm Fawcett, Georgius B. Johnson, et Henricus Rowland-Brown.

 Species 
Generi sunt nonaginta-duae species, ordine alphabetico hic perscriptae.

 Colias adelaidae Verhulst, 1991
 Colias aegidii Verhulst, 1990
 Colias aias Fruhstorfer, 1903
 Colias alexandra W. H. Edwards, 1863
 Colias alfacariensis Ribbe, 1905
 Colias alpherakii Staudinger, 1882
 Colias alta Staudinger, 1886
 Colias aquilonaris Grum-Grshimailo, 1899
 Colias arida Alphéraky, 1889
 Colias audre (Hemming, 1933)
 Colias aurorina Herrich-Schäffer, 1850
 Colias baeckeri Kotzsch, 1930
 Colias balcanica Rebel, 1901
 Colias behrii W. H. Edwards, 1866
 Colias berylla Fawcett, 1904
 Colias boothi Curtis, 1835
 Colias canadensis Ferris, 1982 
 Colias caucasica Staudinger, 1871
 Colias chippewa W. H. Edwards, 1872
 Colias chlorocoma Christoph, 1888
 Colias christina W. H. Edwards, 1863
 Colias christophi Grum-Grshimailo, 1885
 Colias chrysotheme (Esper, 1781)
 Colias cocandica Erschoff, 1874
 Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)
 Colias dimera Doubleday, 1847
 Colias diva Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
 Colias dubia Fawcett, 1906
 Colias electo (Linnaeus, 1763)
 Colias elis Strecker, 1885 (saepe C. meadii)
 Colias eogene C. & R. Felder, 1865
 Colias erate (Esper, 1805)
 Colias erschoffi Alphéraky, 1881
 Colias eurytheme Boisduval, 1852
 Colias euxanthe C. & R. Felder, 1865
 Colias felderi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
 Colias fieldii Ménétriés, 1855 (aliquando in C. electo  "fieldi" est lapsus)
 Colias flaveola Blanchard, 1852
 Colias gigantea Strecker, 1900
 Colias grumi Alpheraky
 Colias harfordii W. H. Edwards, 1877
 Colias hecla Lefèbvre, 1836 (paraphyletic?)
 Colias heos (Herbst, 1792)
 Colias hofmannorum Eckweiler, 2000
 Colias hyale (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Colias hyperborea Grum-Grshimailo, 1899
 Colias interior Scudder, 1862
 Colias johanseni Troubridge & Philip, 1990
 Colias krauthii Klots, 1935
 Colias lada Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
 Colias ladakensis Felder & Felder, 1865
 Colias leechi Grum-Grshimailio, 1893
 Colias lesbia (Fabricius, 1775)
 Colias libanotica Lederer, 1858 (aliquando in C. aurorina)
 Colias marcopolo Grum-Grshimailo, 1888
 Colias marnoana Rogenhofer, 1884
 Colias meadii W. H. Edwards, 1871 
 Colias minisni Bean, 1895
 Colias montium Oberthür, 1886
 Colias mukana Berger, 1981
 Colias myrmidone (Esper, 1781)
 Colias nastes Boisduval, 1834
 Colias nebulosa Oberthür, 1894
 Colias nilagiriensis Felder, C & R Felder, 1859
 Colias nina Fawcett, 1904
 Colias occidentalis Scudder, 1862
 Colias palaeno (Linnaeus, 1761)
 Colias pelidne Boisduval & Le Conte, 1829
 Colias phicomone (Esper, 1780)
 Colias philodice Godart, 1819 
 Colias poliographus Motschulsky, 1861
 Colias ponteni Wallengren, 1860
 Colias pseudochristina Ferris, 1989
 Colias regia Grum-Grshimailo, 1887
 Colias romanovi Grum-Grshimailo, 1885
 Colias sagartia Lederer, 1869
 Colias sareptensis Staudinger, 1871
 Colias scudderii Reakirt, 1865
 Colias shahfuladi Clench & Shoumatoff, 1956
 Colias sieversi Grum-Grshimailo, 1887
 Colias sifanica Grum-Grshimailo, 1891
 Colias staudingeri Alphéraky, 1881
 Colias stoliczkana Moore, 1882
 Colias tamerlana Staudinger, 1897
 Colias thisoa Ménétriés, 1832
 Colias thrasibulus Fruhstorfer, 1908
 Colias thula Hovanitz, 1955
 Colias tibetana Riley, 1922
 Colias tyche (Böber, 1812)
 Colias viluiensis (Ménétriés, 1859)
 Colias wanda Grum-Grshimaïlo, 1907
 Colias wiskotti'' Staudinger, 1882

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Coliadinae
 
Taxa Fabricius
Taxa 1807
Genera animalium