''Pontia helice'', the meadow white, 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

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. It is found in southern Africa.''Pontia''
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'', '' Lepidum capense'', '' Rapistrum rugosum'', and ''

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Subspecies

*''P. h. helice'' (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, southern Botswana, southern Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho) *''P. h. johnstonii'' (Crowley, 1887) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

References

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14
helice Butterflies of Africa Lepidoptera of South Africa Butterflies described in 1764 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Pieridae-stub