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 Anaphaeis Hübner, 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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