Dixeia doxo
| Black-veined White | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Tribe: | Pierini |
| Genus: | Dixeia |
| Species: | D. doxo |
| Binomial name | |
| Dixeia doxo (Godart, [1819]) | |
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The Black-veined White[1] (Dixeia doxo) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family 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 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
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