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Belenois crawshayi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Belenois

Belenois crawshayi

Similar
  
Belenois antsianaka, Belenois solilucis, Belenois zochalia

Belenois crawshayi, the Crawshay's white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Angola, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, the western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Kenya and Uganda. The habitat consists of woodland and forest margins.

The larvae feed on Capparis species.

References

Belenois crawshayi Wikipedia