''Dixeia'', commonly called the small 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
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoologi ...
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 mainly in
Africa
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.
They are not to be confused with the cabbage white butterfly, ''
Pieris rapae
''Pieris rapae'' is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae. It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, on several continents as the small c ...
'', which is referred to as the "small white" in several European nations.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
*''
Dixeia capricornus''
(Ward, 1871)
*''
Dixeia cebron
''Dixeia cebron'', the Cebron white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, southern Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, and possibly the western part of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Th ...
''
Ward, 1871
*''
Dixeia charina''
(Boisduval, 836
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Events
By place Abbasid Caliphate
* Driven by tensions between his favoured Turkish guard and the popula ...
– African small white
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Dixeia dixeyi''
(Neave, 1904)
*''
Dixeia doxo''
(Godart, 819 – black-veined white
*''
Dixeia leucophanes''
Vári, 1976
*''
Dixeia orbona''
(Geyer, 1837)
*''
Dixeia pigea''
(Boisduval, 1836) – ant-heap white or ant-heap small white
*''
Dixeia piscicollis''
Pinhey, 1972
*''
Dixeia spilleri''
(Spiller, 1884) – Spiller's (sulphur) yellow or Spiller's canary white
References
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14
Pierini
Pieridae genera
Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)
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