Pinacopteryx eriphia

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Kingdom Animalia Family Pieridae Scientific name Pinacopteryx eriphia Rank Species		Class Insecta Tribe Pierini Phylum Arthropoda Order Butterflies and moths

Genus Pinacopteryx Wallengren, 1857 Similar Dixeia, Nepheronia, Mylothris, Eronia, Phulia

Pinacopteryx is a monotypic genus of pierid butterflies found in Africa containing Pinacopteryx eriphia, the zebra white.

The wingspan is 40–55 mm in males and 42–47 mm in females. Its flight period is year-round.

Larva feed on Maerua cafra, Boscia species, Capparis oleoides, and Maerua triphylla.

Subspecies

P. e. eriphia (Godart, [1819]) (South Africa, Rhodesia, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, southern Tanzania)

P. e. mabillei (Aurivillius, [1898]) (Madagascar)

P. e. melanarge (Butler, 1886) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, central Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, northern Uganda, northern Tanzania)

P. e. tritogenia (Klug, 1829) (Mauritania to Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger, Chad, Sudan, northern Ethiopia, Arabia)

P. e. wittei Berger, 1940 (western Uganda, north-eastern Zaire)

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