Belenois calypso

Updated on Dec 16, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Belenois

Similar Belenois, Belenois creona, Mylothris rhodope, Belenois solilucis, Nepheronia argia

Belenois calypso, the Calypso white or Calypso caper white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests. The species occasionally migrates.

The larvae feed on Semirestis paniculata, Maerua, Cadaba, Capparis and Ritchiea species.

Subspecies

B. c. calypso (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau. Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)

B. c. dentigera Butler, 1888 (Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Angola)

B. c. marlieri Berger, 1981 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

B. c. minor Talbot, 1943 (Uganda, Kenya (west of the Rift Valley), north-western Tanzania)

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