Cepora perimale

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Scientific name Cepora perimale		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Cepora Rank Species

Similar Belenois java, Cepora, Elodina parthia, Appias ada, Pelopidas lyelli

The wingspan is 40 mm.

The larvae feed on Capparis canescens, Capparis mitchellii and Capparis sepiaria.

Subspecies

C. p. perimale (Norfolk Island)

C. p. scyllara (Macleay, 1826) - Australian gull (northern Australia to the Hunter River, New South Wales)

C. p. pitys Godart, 1819 (Timor)

C. p. wetterensis Grose-Smith (Wetar Island)

C. p. mentes (Wallace, 1867) (Lombok Island)

C. p. pygmaea Röber, 1891 (Leti Island)

C. p. pityna Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Damar Island)

C. p. babberica Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Babar Island)

C. p. consanguinea Butler (Tanimber Group)

C. p. bolana Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Kai Island)

C. p. perictione Felder, 1865 (Aru)

C. p. wallaceana (C. & R. Felder, 1865) (Waigeu)

C. p. dohertyana (Grose-Smith, 1894) (West Irian to southern New Guinea)

C. p. latilimbata (Butler, 1876) (Darnley Island, Papua)

C. p. mithra Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Fergusson Island)

C. p. chrysopis Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Neomfor Island, Geelvink Bay)

C. p. leucophorus Grose-Smith, 1897 (Trobriand Islands)

C. p. acrisa Boisduval, 1859 (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands)

C. p. quadricolor (Godman & Salvin, 1877) (New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Duke of York Group)

C. p. agnata Grose-Smith, 1889 (Guadalcanal, Roviana)

C. p. discolor Mathew, 1887 (Ugi, Ulana Islands)

C. p. macdonaldi (Ribbe, 1898) (Bougainville)

C. p. maculata Grose-Smith, 1896 (New Britain)

C. p. radiata Howarth, 1962 (Bellona Island, Somonons)

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