Coast Purple Tip vs Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Colotis erone compared with Pygathrix cinerea

Key Differences

• Coast Purple Tip is Least Concern while Gray-shanked Douc Langur is Critically Endangered.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Coast Purple Tip	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Kingdom same	Animalia (Animals)	Animalia (Animals)
Phylum	Arthropoda (Arthropods)	Chordata (Chordates)
Class	Insecta (Insects)	Mammalia (Mammals)
Order	Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths)	Primates (Primates)
Family	Pieridae	Cercopithecidae (Old World Monkeys)
Genus	Colotis	Pygathrix
Species	Colotis erone	Pygathrix cinerea

Evolutionary Relationship

Coast Purple Tip and Gray-shanked Douc Langur share a common ancestor at the Kingdom level: Animalia. (Animals)

Conservation Status

Coast Purple Tip

LC — Least Concern

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

CR — Critically Endangered

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Coast Purple Tip	Gray-shanked Douc Langur
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Coast Purple Tip

Habitat

Typically found in virtually all terrestrial and freshwater habitats.

Gray-shanked Douc Langur

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Coast Purple Tip

Coast purple-tip (Colotis erone) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, subfamily Colotinae, native to coastal and wooded savanna habitats of sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in eastern and southern Africa from Kenya and Tanzania south to Mozambique and South Africa. Like other Colotis species, males have striking wing-tip markings—in this case a vivid purple or lilac patch on the forewing apex—while females are more cryptically patterned. Larvae feed on plants in the family Salvadoraceae or Capparaceae, typical host families for the genus. Adults are fast-flying and typically found along woodland margins, coastal thickets, and scrub habitats near the coast. The genus Colotis is distributed across Africa and Asia, with many species restricted to specific host plants and habitat types. Coast purple-tip is assessed as Least Concern by the IUCN, with populations distributed across suitable coastal and woodland habitat in eastern and southern Africa. Like many invertebrates, it is sensitive to habitat quality and the availability of its larval food plants.