page_title: Colias marcopolo
section_title: Biology
hierarchical_section_title: Colias marcopolo / Biology
caption_attribution_description: English: The Kokcha River in Badakhshan Province of Afghanistan.
context_page_description: Colias marcopolo, the Marco Polo's colias, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Pamir Mountains the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan.
context_section_description: The larva feeds on species of Astragalus.
caption: Montane habitat in Afghanistan
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