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Dixeia capricornus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Dixeia

Dixeia capricornus

Similar
  
Dixeia orbona, Megalopalpus zymna, Cerautola crowleyi, Mylothris rhodope, Dixeia doxo

Dixeia capricornus, the Capricorn white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and Angola. The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

  • Dixeia capricornus capricornus (eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, southern Nigeria, western and central Cameroon)
  • Dixeia capricornus falkensteinii (Dewitz, 1879) (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola)

    • References

    Dixeia capricornus Wikipedia
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