About Colotis danae (Fabricius, 1775)
This species, Colotis danae, originally described by Fabricius in 1775, has highly variable colouration, particularly among female individuals, which ranges from orange to red. It is distributed across Baluchistan, western and southern India, Sri Lanka, Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Iran, Ghana, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Arabia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, and the United Arab Emirates. For its life cycle, the larval food plants of Colotis danae belong to the genera Cadaba, Capparis, and Maerua, all of which are in the plant family Capparaceae.
