Dixeia doxo

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Kingdom Animalia Family Pieridae Genus Dixeia Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths		Class Insecta Tribe Pierini Scientific name Dixeia doxo Rank Species

Similar Dixeia, Dixeia orbona, Colotis celimene, Dixeia pigea, Colotis vesta

Dixeia doxo, the black-veined white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family and is native to southern Africa.

Wingspan is 34–40 mm in males and 36–42 mm in females. Flight period is year-round.

Larvae feed on Capparis species.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

D. d. alberta (Grünberg, 1912) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, central and north-central Tanzania)

D. d. costata Talbot, 1943 (Uganda, western Kenya, coast of Tanzania)

D. d. doxo (Senegal, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, northern Nigeria to western Sudan)

D. d. parva Talbot, 1943 (Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa)

D. d. venatus (Butler, 1871) (south-western Ethiopia, southern Sudan)

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