Belenois hedyle

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

Belenois hedyle, the western yellow caper white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin and western Nigeria. The habitat consists of edges of dry forests.

Subspecies

Belenois hedyle hedyle (eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, western Nigeria)

Belenois hedyle ianthe (Doubleday, 1842) (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone)

Belenois hedyle rhena (Doubleday, 1846) (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, western Ghana)

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