xanthophobia

For example, early Christian examples of xanthophobia, or fear of the color yellow, have been given artistic expression in the numerous examples depicting Judas Iscariot dressed in yellow betraying in the Garden of Gethsemane with a treacherous kiss [...]

2016, Jonathan Faiers, May Westerman Bulgarella, Colors in Fashion, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 262

For example, he construed from my xanthophobia that I must first have serialised my reminiscences in the yellow-backed Holywell Street Journal, of dubious and questionable memory.

2021, Nick Dunn-Meynell, edited by David Macrum, A Proof Reader’s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Andrews UK, →ISBN, page 187

One function of xanthophobia in loggerhead hatchlings may be to reduce the attraction of light sources with a substantial participation of long-wavelength light.

1991 December 13, Blair E. Witherington, Karen A. Bjorndal, “Influences of Wavelength and Intensity on Hatchling Sea Turtle Phototaxis: Implications for Sea-Finding Behavior”, in Copeia, volume 1991, number 4, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, pages 1067–8

In contrast, loggerhead hatchlings showed an aversion to light in the green-yellow to yellow region of the spectrum (560 to 600 nm) (Figure 5.2). Although this xanthophobia (yellow light aversion) is unique to loggerheads, green turtles are less strongly attracted to yellow light than to light of other wavelengths.

1997, Kenneth J. Lohmann et al., “Orientation, Navigation, and Natal Beach Homing in Sea Turtles”, chapter 5 of John A. Musick et al. (editors), The Biology of Sea Turtles, CRC Press, page 111