The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·149059GenusInsecta2,060 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Arthropods
  3. ›Hexapods
  4. ›Insects
  5. ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
  6. ›Butterflies and Moths
  7. ›Butterflies
  8. ›Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs
  9. ›Whites
  10. ›Pierini
  11. ›Aporiina
Dixeia
Plate 1 of 7. (c) Gigi Laidler, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Gigi Laidler · via iNaturalist

Dixeia

Dixeia, commonly called the small whites, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierini in the family Pieridae that are found mainly in Africa.

They are not to be confused with the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae, which is referred to as the "small white" in several European nations.

Continue reading on Wikipedia

10 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Small Ant-heap White

speciesDixeia pigea

African Small White

speciesDixeia charina

Sulphur Ant-heap White

speciesDixeia spilleri

Black-veined White

speciesDixeia doxo

Creamy Small White

speciesDixeia orbona

Spotless Black-veined Ant-heap White

speciesDixeia leucophanes

Capricorn White

speciesDixeia cebron

Dixeia piscicollis

speciesDixeia piscicollis

Dixeia capricornus

speciesDixeia capricornus

Dixeia dixeyi

speciesDixeia dixeyi

See this branch on the Wheel of Life →
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Dixeia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

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 149059.