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Belenois
Belenois, commonly called the caper whites, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierini in the family Pieridae that are found in mainly in Africa and south-west Asia.
29 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Pioneer White
speciesBelenois aurota
Caper White
speciesBelenois java
African Caper
speciesBelenois creona
False Dotted Border
speciesBelenois thysa
Forest White
speciesBelenois zochalia
Calypso White
speciesBelenois calypso
Raffray’s White
speciesBelenois raffrayi
Forest Caper White
speciesBelenois theora
Belenois grandidieri
speciesBelenois grandidieri
Sudan caper white
speciesBelenois sudanensis
Yellow Caper White
speciesBelenois solilucis
Belenois helcida
speciesBelenois helcida
Belenois crawshayi
speciesBelenois crawshayi
Red-edged White
speciesBelenois rubrosignata
Belenois victoria
speciesBelenois victoria
Belenois subeida
speciesBelenois subeida
Belenois antsianaka
speciesBelenois antsianaka
Central Caper White
speciesBelenois theuszi
Belenois mabella
speciesBelenois mabella
Belenois margaritacea
speciesBelenois margaritacea
Belenois diminuta
speciesBelenois diminuta
Belenois hedyle
speciesBelenois hedyle
Socotran Caper White
speciesBelenois anomala
Belenois welwitschii
speciesBelenois welwitschii
Belenois aldabrensis
speciesBelenois aldabrensis
Belenois hypoxantha
speciesBelenois hypoxantha
Belenois larima
speciesBelenois larima
Belenois ogygia
speciesBelenois ogygia
Belenois albomaculatus
speciesBelenois albomaculatus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125578.