Kingdom Animalia Family Pieridae Genus Dixeia Order Butterflies and moths | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Dixeia, Dixeia doxo, Leptosia alcesta, Appias phaola, Colotis vesta | ||
Dixeia orbona, the creamy small white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of open woodland and open montane forests, particularly forest-grassland mosaic.
The larvae feed on Capparis species.
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