website logo Lepidoptera Outer Hebrides

Family: Pieridae   Checklist Number: 58.010

Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)

Clouded Yellow

An intermittent migrant from north Africa and southern Europe, predominantly to England and Wales. Scotland has recorded it in good years, but the Outer Hebrides are too far north apart from exceptional years. Last recorded here in 1992 by Butterfly Conservation but without details.

References: 
Kirkland, P. (2022). Discovering Scotland's Butterflies.
Newland, D.E. (2006). Discover Butterflies in Britain.

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