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Belenois

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Belenois
African caper white (B. aurota), Agra, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Pieridae
Subfamily:
Pierini
Genus:
Belenois

Hübner, [1819]
Species

See text

Synonyms

Anaphaeis (Hübner, 1819)
Glycestha (Billberg, 1820)
Pseudohuphina (Stoneham, 1940)
Pseudanaphaeis (Bernard, 1953)

African veined white (B. gidica, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Belenois, commonly called the caper whites, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierini in the family Pieridae that are found in mainly in Africa and south-west Asia.

Species[1]

Subgenus Anaphaeis Hübner, 1819:

  • Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) – brown-veined white, African caper white, or pioneer white
  • Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776) – African common white or African caper
  • Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819) – African veined white or pointed caper

Species group pseudohuphina:

Group Incertae sedis:

References

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  1. ^ Belenois, Site of Markku Savela
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