Dixeia doxo
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Black-veined white | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Dixeia |
Species: | D. doxo
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Binomial name | |
Dixeia doxo (Godart, [1819])
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Dixeia doxo, the black-veined white,[1] is a butterfly in the family Pieridae and is native to southern Africa.[2]
Wingspan is 34–40 mm in males and 36–42 mm in females. Flight period is year-round.[1]
Larvae feed on Capparis species.[1][2]
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.[2]
- 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)
References
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14Error: "Q729928" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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- Butterflies described in 1819
- Pierini
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Godart