Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer 1862)

[Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer)]
Idmais doubledayi Hopffer, 1862: 363 (Mozambique).
According to Aurivillius (1910 [1908-1925]) this species is distributed from Sierra Leone to Congo and Angola, to which the type locality must certainly be added. The Sierra Leone record used by Aurivillius (1898) to mark the western limit of the range was from the Staudinger Collection and might have been in error. It has never been recorded from Liberia. Bernardi (1954) did not include it among the Pieridae from the Nimba country nor did he record it (1952) from Togo or Dahomey. Furthermore, it is not represented in the fine collections from the Cameroon forests in Carnegie Museum. I suspect that it does not occur in Occidental Africa, the Staudinger record notwithstanding. If Staudinger's "'Sierra Leone" was correct, then doubledayi might be found in Liberia.

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

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.

The larvae feed on Maerua schinzii.