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Belenois theora

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Belenois

Similar
  
Belenois solilucis, Belenois calypso, Belenois zochalia, Appias phaola, Appias sabina

Belenois theora, the forest caper white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania. The habitat consists of woodland and forest margins.

The larvae feed on Capparis species.

Subspecies

  • Belenois sudanensis theora (Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon)
  • Belenois sudanensis laeta (Weymer, 1903) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, southern Sudan, north-western Tanzania)
  • Belenois sudanensis ratheo (Suffert, 1904) (Cameroon to the Central African Republic, central and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo)

    • References

    Belenois theora Wikipedia
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