''Dixeia charina'', the African small white,Markku Savela's pages: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/pierinae/dixeia/index.html is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...

and is native to southeastern

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...

. The wingspan is 34–40 mm in males and 36–42 mm in females. Its flight period is year-round. Larvae feed on '' Capparis citrifolia'' and '' Capparis sepiaria''.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically: *''D. c. charina'' (southern Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini) *''D. c. dagera'' (Suffert, 1904) (Tanzania) *''D. c. liliana'' (Grose-Smith, 1889) (eastern and coastal Kenya, northern Tanzania) *''D. c. narena'' (Grose-Smith, 1898) (Madagascar) *''D. c. pulverulenta'' (Dixey, 1929) (Kenya) *''D. c. septentrionalis'' Bernardi, 1958 (eastern and northern Ethiopia) *''D. c. simana'' Hopffer, 1855 (northern Mozambique)

References

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3306630 Butterflies described in 1836 Pierini Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval