''Cepora perimale'', the caper gull, 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 on

Norfolk Island Norfolk Island (, ; Norfuk: ''Norf'k Ailen'') is an external territory of Australia located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and New Caledonia, directly east of Australia's Evans Head and about from Lord Howe Island. Together with ...

and in

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, the

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, Victoria,

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, Irian Jaya, Maluku,

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, the

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and

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. The

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is 40 mm. The larvae feed on ''

Capparis canescens ''Capparis canescens'', also known as wild orange, orangewood, native pomegranate, wild pomegranate or grey capparis, is a species of plant in the caper family. It is native to north-eastern Australia. Description The species grows as a shrub ...

'', '' Capparis mitchellii'' and ''

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''.

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Subspecies

*''C. p. perimale'' (Norfolk Island) *''C. p. scyllara'' (Macleay, 1826) - Australian gull (northern Australia to the Hunter River, New South Wales) *''C. p. pitys'' Godart, 1819 (Timor) *''C. p. wetterensis'' Grose-Smith (Wetar Island) *''C. p. mentes'' (Wallace, 1867) (Lombok Island) *''C. p. pygmaea'' Röber, 1891 (Leti Island) *''C. p. pityna'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Damar Island) *''C. p. babberica'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Babar Island) *''C. p. consanguinea'' Butler (Tanimber Group) *''C. p. bolana'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Kai Island) *''C. p. perictione'' Felder, 1865 (Aru) *''C. p. wallaceana'' (C. & R. Felder, 1865) (Waigeu) *''C. p. dohertyana'' (Grose-Smith, 1894) (West Irian to southern New Guinea) *''C. p. latilimbata'' (Butler, 1876) (Darnley Island, Papua) *''C. p. mithra'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Fergusson Island) *''C. p. chrysopis'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Neomfor Island, Geelvink Bay) *''C. p. leucophorus'' Grose-Smith, 1897 (Trobriand Islands) *''C. p. acrisa'' Boisduval, 1859 (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands) *''C. p. quadricolor'' (Godman & Salvin, 1877) (New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Duke of York Group) *''C. p. agnata'' Grose-Smith, 1889 (Guadalcanal, Roviana) *''C. p. discolor'' Mathew, 1887 (Ugi, Ulana Islands) *''C. p. macdonaldi'' (Ribbe, 1898) (Bougainville) *''C. p. maculata'' Grose-Smith, 1896 (New Britain) *''C. p. radiata'' Howarth, 1962 (Bellona Island, Somonons)

External links

Australian InsectsAustralian Faunal Directory
Pierini Butterflies described in 1805 {{Pieridae-stub