African common white | |
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Female in wet season | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Belenois |
Species: | B. creona
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Binomial name | |
Belenois creona (
Cramer, 1776)
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Subspecies | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
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Belenois creona, the African common white or African caper, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.
The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The sexes are dimorphic.
Uppersides are white with black or brown marginal borders and veins in forewing apex. There is a black spot in the upperside cell, instead of a bar as in the brown-veined white ( B. aurota).
Females have broader dark upperside borders on both wings. Underwings are yellow during the wet season. [1]
The larvae feed on Capparis and Maerua species.
The following subspecies are recognised: [2]
African common white | |
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Female in wet season | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Belenois |
Species: | B. creona
|
Binomial name | |
Belenois creona (
Cramer, 1776)
| |
Subspecies | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
|
Belenois creona, the African common white or African caper, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.
The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The sexes are dimorphic.
Uppersides are white with black or brown marginal borders and veins in forewing apex. There is a black spot in the upperside cell, instead of a bar as in the brown-veined white ( B. aurota).
Females have broader dark upperside borders on both wings. Underwings are yellow during the wet season. [1]
The larvae feed on Capparis and Maerua species.
The following subspecies are recognised: [2]