Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.

Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh.

males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh.

"[1] It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.

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