''Belenois'', commonly called the caper whites, is a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
of the
subfamily
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Pierini
Pierini is a tribe of butterflies within the family Pieridae.
Genera
Listed alphabetically: – blackveins
*''Appias'' Hübner, 819/small> – puffins and albatrosses
*'' Archonias'' Hübner, 1825
*'' Ascia'' Scopoli, 1777
*''Baltia'' Moore, 1 ...
in the family
Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Le ...
that are found in mainly in
Africa
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and south-west
Asia
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.
Species
Subgenus
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In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between t ...
''Anaphaeis''
Hübner, 1819:
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Belenois aurota
''Belenois aurota'', the pioneer or pioneer white or caper white, is a small to medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in South Asia and Africa. In Africa, it is also known as the brown-vein ...
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(Fabricius, 1793) – brown-veined white, African caper white, or pioneer white
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Belenois creona
''Belenois creona'', the African common white or African caper, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.
Description
The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The sexes are dimorphic.
Males
Uppersides are white w ...
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(Cramer, 1776) – African common white or African caper
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Belenois gidica''
(Godart, 1819) – African veined white or pointed caper
Species group
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...
''pseudohuphina'':
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Belenois margaritacea''
Sharpe, 1891 – Margarita's caper white
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Belenois raffrayi''
(Oberthür, 1878) – Raffray's white
Group ''
Incertae sedis
' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...
'':
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Belenois albomaculatus''
(Goeze, 1779)
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Belenois aldabrensis''
(Holland, 1896)
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Belenois anomala''
(Butler, 1881)
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Belenois antsianaka''
(Ward, 1870)
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Belenois calypso''
(Drury, 1773) – Calypso caper white
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Belenois crawshayi''
Butler, 1894 – Crawshay's caper white
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Belenois diminuta''
Butler, 1894
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Belenois grandidieri''
(Mabille, 1878)
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Belenois hedyle''
(Cramer, 1777)
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Belenois helcida''
(Boisduval, 1833)
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Belenois java''
(Linnaeus, 1768) – caper white
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Belenois larima''
(Boisduval, 1836)
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Belenois mabella''
Grose-Smith, 1891
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Belenois ogygia''
(Trimen, 1883)
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Belenois rubrosignata
''Belenois rubrosignata'', the red-edged white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Somalia. The habitat consists of dense woodland.
The ...
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(Weymer, 1901) – red-edged white
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Belenois solilucis''
Butler, 1874
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Belenois subeida''
(C. & R. Felder, 1865)
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Belenois sudanensis''
(Talbot, 1929) – Sudan caper white
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Belenois theora''
(Doubleday, 1846)
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Belenois theuszi''
Dewitz, 1889
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Belenois thysa''
(Hopffer, 1855) – false dotted border
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Belenois victoria''
(Dixey, 1915) – Victoria white
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Belenois welwitschii''
Rogenhofer, 1890
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Belenois zochalia''
(Boisduval, 1836) – forest white or forest caper white
''Belenois''
Site of Markku Savela
References
Pierini
Pieridae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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