''Dixeia'', commonly called the small whites, is a genus of
butterflies
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 ...
of the
subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end botanical subfamily names with "-oideae", and zo ...
Pierini Pierini may refer to:
* Pierini (butterflies), a tribe of butterflies within the family Pieridae
* Pierini (surname), Italian surname
See also
* Perini (disambiguation)
* Pierino (disambiguation)
{{disambiguation ...
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 ...
that are found mainly in
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 ...
.
They are not to be confused with the cabbage white butterfly, ''
Pieris rapae
''Pieris rapae'' is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae. It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, on several continents as the small ca ...
'', which is referred to as the "small white" in several European nations.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
*''
Dixeia capricornus''
(Ward, 1871)
*''
Dixeia cebron''
Ward, 1871
*''
Dixeia charina''
(Boisduval, 836
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– African small white
*''
Dixeia dixeyi''
(Neave, 1904)
*''
Dixeia doxo''
(Godart, 819
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Events
By place
Europe
* Spring – Emperor Louis I marries Judith of Bavaria in Aachen.Rogers, Barbara, Bernhard W. Scholz, and Nithard ...
– black-veined white
*''
Dixeia leucophanes''
Vári, 1976
*''
Dixeia orbona''
(Geyer, 1837)
*''
Dixeia pigea''
(Boisduval, 1836) – ant-heap white or ant-heap small white
*''
Dixeia piscicollis''
Pinhey, 1972
*''
Dixeia spilleri''
(Spiller, 1884) – Spiller's (sulphur) yellow or Spiller's canary white
References
Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14
Pierini
Pieridae genera
Taxa named by George Talbot (entomologist)
Taxa described in 1932
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