Colias hecla (Northern Clouded Yellow)

Systematics :

Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
Phylum: Arthropoda (Articulate animals)
Class: Insecta (Insects)
Order: Lepidoptera (Moths and butterflies)
Group: Rhopalocera (Butterflies)
Family: Pieridae (Whites)
Subfamily: Coliadinae
Genus: Colias
Species: Colias hecla (Northern Clouded Yellow)

Other names: heklagulvinge

Norwegian name: Mjeltgulvinge

Host plants: Alpine Milk-vetch (Astragalus alpinus), Arctostaphylos, Astragalus, Vaccinium

Confusion species: Colias croceus (Clouded Yellow)