Dixeia capricornus

Capricorn white
	Female
	Female, upperside and underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Dixeia
Species:	D. capricornus
Binomial name
	Dixeia capricornus; (Ward, 1871)
Synonyms
	Pieris capricornus Ward, 1871; Pieris adultera Plötz, 1880; Pieris capricornus nusprica Suffert, 1904; Dixeia cebron f. aurantiaca Talbot, 1943; Dixeia capricornus f. signata Talbot, 1943; Dixeia capricornus capricornus alba Bernardi, 1961; Dixeia capricornus capricornus ochracea Bernardi, 1961; Pieris falkensteinii Dewitz, 1879; Tachyris lindnerii Dewitz, 1879;

Dixeia capricornus, the Capricorn white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and Angola.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

Dixeia capricornus capricornus (eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, southern Nigeria, western and central Cameroon)
Dixeia capricornus falkensteinii (Dewitz, 1879) (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola)