Belenois

Belenois
African caper white (B. aurota), Agra, India
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Pierini
Genus:	Belenois Hübner, [1819]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Anaphaeis(Hübner, 1819) Glycestha(Billberg, 1820) Pseudohuphina(Stoneham, 1940) Pseudanaphaeis(Bernard, 1953)

African veined white ( B. gidica , Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Belenois, commonly called the caper whites, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierini in the family Pieridae that are found in mainly in Africa and south-west Asia.

Species

Subgenus AnaphaeisHübner, 1819:

• Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) – brown-veined white, African caper white, or pioneer white
• Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776) – African common white or African caper
• Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819) – African veined white or pointed caper

Species group pseudohuphina:

• Belenois margaritacea Sharpe, 1891 – Margarita's caper white
• Belenois raffrayi (Oberthür, 1878) – Raffray's white

Group Incertae sedis :

• Belenois albomaculatus (Goeze, 1779)
• Belenois aldabrensis (Holland, 1896)
• Belenois anomala (Butler, 1881)
• Belenois antsianaka (Ward, 1870)
• Belenois calypso (Drury, 1773) – Calypso caper white
• Belenois crawshayi Butler, 1894 – Crawshay's caper white
• Belenois diminuta Butler, 1894
• Belenois grandidieri (Mabille, 1878)
• Belenois hedyle (Cramer, 1777)
• Belenois helcida (Boisduval, 1833)
• Belenois java (Linnaeus, 1768) – caper white
• Belenois larima (Boisduval, 1836)
• Belenois mabella Grose-Smith, 1891
• Belenois ogygia (Trimen, 1883)
• Belenois rubrosignata (Weymer, 1901) – red-edged white
• Belenois solilucis Butler, 1874
• Belenois subeida (C. & R. Felder, 1865)
• Belenois sudanensis (Talbot, 1929) – Sudan caper white
• Belenois theora (Doubleday, 1846)
• Belenois theuszi Dewitz, 1889
• Belenois thysa (Hopffer, 1855) – false dotted border
• Belenois victoria (Dixey, 1915) – Victoria white
• Belenois welwitschii Rogenhofer, 1890
• Belenois zochalia (Boisduval, 1836) – forest white or forest caper white

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References

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1. Belenois, Site of Markku Savela