Colias wiskotti is a butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 in the Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 family. It is found in Turkestan

Turkestan

Turkestan, spelled also as Turkistan, literally means "Land of the Turks".The term Turkestan is of Persian origin and has never been in use to denote a single nation. It was first used by Persian geographers to describe the place of Turkish peoples...

, Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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, Tadzikhistan, Kashmir

Kashmir

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. The habitat consists of xerophytic mountains.

It is a highly polymorphous species with a lot of varieties or forms described. Adults are on wing from June to August.

The larvae feed on Acantolimon, Oxytropis

Oxytropis

Oxytropis is a genus of plants in the legume family. It is one of two genera of plants known as locoweeds, and are notorious for being toxic to grazing animals. The other locoweed genus is the closely related Astragalus. There are about 300 species native to Eurasia and North America. Several...

and Onobrychis echidna.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

• Colias wiskotti wiskotti (western Ghissar)
• Colias wiskotti sagina Austaut, 1891 (eastern Ghissar, Darvaz)
• Colias wiskotti separata Grum-Grshimailo, 1888 (Alaisky Mountains)
• Colias wiskotti aurea Kotzsch, 1937 (western Pamirs)
• Colias wiskotti draconis Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 (western Tian-Shan)
• Colias wiskotti sweadneri Clench & Shoumatoff, 1956 (Afghanistan)