''Pinacopteryx'' is a

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genus of

pierid 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 Lev ...

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 ...

found 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 ...

containing ''Pinacopteryx eriphia'', the zebra white.''Pinacopteryx''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' The

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is 40–55 mm in males and 42–47 mm in females. Its flight period is year-round. Larvae feed on ''

Maerua cafra ''Maerua afra'' (DC.) Ferdinand Albin Pax, Pax is a small Southern African tree belonging to Capparaceae, the caper family, occurring eastwards along the coast from Knysna, then further inland and northwards through KwaZulu-Natal and Swaziland, ...

'', ''

Boscia ''Boscia'' is a genus of plants in the family Capparaceae. It contains the following species: *''Boscia albitrunca'' (Burch) Gilg & Ben. *''Boscia angustifolia'' A. Rich. *''Boscia arabica'' Pestalozii *''Boscia caffra'' Sond. *''Boscia coriac ...

'' species, '' Capparis oleoides'', and '' Maerua triphylla''.

Subspecies

*''Pinacopteryx eriphia eriphia'' (Godart,

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(South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, southern Tanzania) *''Pinacopteryx eriphia mabillei'' (Aurivillius,

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(Madagascar) *''Pinacopteryx eriphia melanarge'' (Butler, 1886) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, central Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, northern Uganda, northern Tanzania) *''Pinacopteryx eriphia tritogenia'' (Klug, 1829) (Mauritania to Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger, Chad, Sudan, northern Ethiopia, Arabia) *''Pinacopteryx eriphia wittei'' Berger, 1940 (western Uganda, north-eastern DRC)

References

External links

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 10images representing ''Pinacopteryx''
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