Belenois

Belenois ye un xéneru de caparines de la familia Pieridae.Verz. bekannt. Atópase n'África y suroeste d'Asia.

 Descripción 
Especie tipu por monotípia Papilio calypso Drury, 1773.Genera and Genus-group Names of the Butterflies of the World

 Diversidá 
Esisten 28 especies distribuyíes ente la rexón afrotropical y el suroeste d'Asia.Afrotropical Checklist

 Plantes güéspedes 
Les especies del xéneru Belenois  aliméntense de plantes de les families Brassicaceae, Salvadoraceae, Anacardiaceae, Verbenaceae, Celastraceae, Rhizophoraceae y Oleaceae. Les plantes güéspedes reportaes inclúin los xéneros Boscia, Capparis, Cleome, Maerua, Apophyllum, Crateva, Thilachium, Cadaba, Ritchiea, Niebuhria, Salvadora, Rhus, Clerodendrum, Brassica y Sinapis.HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants.Butterflies of West Africa.Lepidoptera of Southern Africa.Evolution of llarval host plant associations and adaptive radiation in pierid butterflies.Lepidoptera and some other life forms.

 Especies 
Subxéneru Anaphaeis Hübner, 1819:
Subxéneru Anaphaeis Hübner, 1819:
 Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) – Brown-veined White, African Caper White, or Pioneer White
 Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776) – African Common White or African Caper 
 Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819) – African Veined White or Pointed Caper

Grupu pseudohuphina:
 Belenois margaritacea Sharpe, 1891 – Margarita's Caper White
 Belenois raffrayi (Oberthür, 1878) – Raffray's White

Grupu Incertae sedis:
 Belenois albomaculatus (Goeze, 1779)
 Belenois aldabrensis (Holland, 1896)
 Belenois anomala (Butler, 1881)
 Belenois antsianaka (Ward, 1870)
 Belenois calypso (Drury, 1773) – Calypso Caper White 
 Belenois crawshayi Butler, 1894 – Crawshay's Caper White
 Belenois diminuta Butler, 1894
 Belenois grandidieri (Mabille, 1878)
 Belenois hedyle (Cramer, 1777)
 Belenois helcida (Boisduval, 1833)
 Belenois java (Linnaeus, 1768) – Caper White
 Belenois larima (Boisduval, 1836)
 Belenois mabella Grose-Smith, 1891
 Belenois ogygia (Trimen, 1883)
 Belenois rubrosignata (Weymer, 1901) – Red-Edged White
 Belenois solilucis Butler, 1874
 Belenois subeida (C. & R. Felder, 1865)
 Belenois sudanensis (Talbot, 1929) – Sudan Caper White
 Belenois theora (Doubleday, 1846)
 Belenois theuszi Dewitz, 1889
 Belenois thysa (Hopffer, 1855) – False Dotted Border
 Belenois victoria (Dixey, 1915) – Victoria White
 Belenois welwitschii Rogenhofer, 1890
 Belenois zochalia (Boisduval, 1836) – Forest White or Forest Caper White

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