African Caper White
Belenois creona
Classification
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pieridae
Le genre Belenois regroupe des lépidoptères (papillons) de la famille des Pieridae et de la sous-famille des Pierinae. Dénomination Le genre a été décrit par l'entomologiste allemand Jakob Hübner en 1819. L'espèce type est Papilio calypso (Drury) Synonymie Anaphaeis (Hübner, 1819) Glycestha (Billberg, 182)0 Pseudohuphina (Stoneham, 1940) Pseudanaphaeis (Bernardi, 1953) Taxinomie Liste des espèces : Belenois aldabrensis Holland, 1896.
Belenois aurota, the pioneer or pioneer white or caper white, is a small to medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae—that is, the yellows and whites—which is found in South Asia, West Asia and Africa. In Africa, it is also known as the brown-veined white, and is well known during summer and autumn when large numbers migrate north-east over the interior. Description Wet-season form The upperside of males is white with the forewing having the costa from base to base of vein 11 dusky black and then jet black continuing into a widened and curving short streak along the…
Belenois creona es una especie de mariposa de la familia de las piérides, que fue descrita originalmente con el nombre de Papilio creona, por Cramer, en 1776, a partir de ejemplares procedentes de "Indes Orientales" (= África). Distribución Belenois creona está distribuida entre las regiones Afrotropical y Paleártica y ha sido reportada en 25 países. Plantas hospederas Las larvas de B.
Distribution
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