''Belenois ogygia'' is a

butterfly 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 ...

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 Levi ...

. It is found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

and the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

Taxonomy

The species is probably a hybrid of ''

Belenois thysa ''Belenois thysa'', the false dotted border, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Africa. The wingspan is for males and for females. Adults are on wing year-round in warm areas. The larvae feed on ''Capparis'' species and ''M ...

'' and '' Belenois zochalia''.

Subspecies

*''Belenois ogygia ogygia'' (South Africa) *''Belenois ogygia bongeya'' Berger, 1981 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

Butterflies described in 1883 Pierini Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Roland Trimen {{Pieridae-stub