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Appias epaphia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Scientific name
  
Appias epaphia

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Appias

Rank
  
Subspecies

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Similar
  
Appias sabina, Appias phaola, Appias sylvia, Leptosia alcesta, Colotis celimene

Appias epaphia, the diverse white or African albatross, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Africa, south of the Sahara. The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

The wingspan is 40–50 millimetres (1.6–2.0 in). Adults are on wing year-round, but mainly from March to May in southern Africa.

The larvae feed on Capparis species (including Capparis sepiaria), Maerua racemulosa, and Boscia albitrunca.

Subspecies

  • A. e. epaphia (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda (Bwamba Forest), western Kenya)
  • A. e. orbona (Boisduval, 1833) (Madagascar)
  • A. e. contracta (Butler, 1888) (Sudan, Ethiopia, eastern Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, north-eastern Botswana, South Africa (Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province), Swaziland, Comoro Islands)

    • References

    Appias epaphia Wikipedia
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