Pinacopteryx eriphia
| Zebra White | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Tribe: | Pierini |
| Genus: | Pinacopteryx Wallengren, 1857 |
| Species: | P. eriphia |
| Binomial name | |
| Pinacopteryx eriphia (Godart, [1819]) | |
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Pinacopteryx is a monotypic genus of pierid butterflies found in Africa containing the Zebra White (Pinacopteryx eriphia).[1]
The wingspan is 40–55 mm in males and 42–47 mm in females. Flight period is year-round.[2]
Larva feed on Maerua cafra, Boscia spp., Capparis oleoides, and Maerua triphylla.[1][2]
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)
References
- 1 2 Pinacopteryx, funet.fi
- 1 2 Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.
External links
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 10
- images representing Pinacopteryx at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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