''Itaballia demophile'', the cross-barred white, crossbarred white, or black-banded white, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

. It is found from the southern United States,Cross-barred White
NABA South Texas and

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

. The habitat consists of disturbed areas including forest clearings, riverbanks, roadsides, fields, cattle pastures and wasteland.'Black-banded White
Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes The

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is . The larvae feed on the leaves of ''

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'' species, including '' Capparis indica'', and '' Capparis frondosa''.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognized: *''I. d. calydonia'' (Boisduval, 1836) (Belize, Venezuela, Colombia) *''I. d. centralis'' Joicey & Talbot, 1928 (Guatemala, Honduras) *''I. d. charopus'' (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (Brazil: Amazonas) *''I. d. demophile'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (Guyana) *''I. d. huebneri'' Fruhstorfer, 1907 (Brazil) *''I. d. lucania'' (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia) *''I. d. nimietes'' (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (Brazil: Bahia) *''I. d. niphates'' Fruhstorfer, 1907 (Brazil: Pará) *''I. d. niseias'' (Fruhstorfer, 1907) (Paraguay)

References

Pierini Butterflies described in 1758 Fauna of Brazil Pieridae of South America Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Pieridae-stub