Colotis doubledayi

Colotis doubledayi, the Doubleday's tip or Doubleday's orange, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.^[1][2]

Doubleday's tip
C. d. doubledayi, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colotis
Species:	C. doubledayi
Binomial name
Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862)[1]
Subspecies
C. d. doubledayi C. d. angolanus Talbot, 1929 C. d. flavulus Henning, Henning, Joannou & Woodhall, 1997
Synonyms
Idmaeus doubledayi Hopffer, 1862 Idmaeus vesta Trimen, 1862 Idmais hewitsoni Kirby, 1871 Teracolus doubledayi Butler, 1897

The wingspan is 32–40 mm in males and 34–45 mm in females. The adults have two broods from September to October and April to May.^[2]

The larvae feed on Maerua schinzii.^[2]