Photo © Pete Eeles
Pale Clouded Yellow
Colias hyale
Checklist Number58.011 [B&F: 1543]
Verification
Record will require further evidence, at least a good photograph, unless CMR is aware recorder has confidence in identification
Classification
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Subfamily: | Coliadinae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | hyale |
| Authority: | (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Locally common, in flower meadows and farmland; 0-1800 m throughout much of northern Europe. An uncommon but regular immigrant especially in the 1940s, thereafter only recorded very rarely. A very rare immigrant to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Wingspan 42-50 mm. Very similar to f. helice of Clouded Yellow and Berger's Clouded Yellow. Larva feeds on Lucerne.