Dixeia charina
African small white | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Tribe: | Pierini |
Genus: | Dixeia |
Species: | D. charina |
Binomial name | |
Dixeia charina (Boisduval, [1836]) | |
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Dixeia charina, the African small white,[1][2] is a butterfly in the Pieridae family and is native to southeastern Africa.
The wingspan is 34–40 mm in males and 36–42 mm in females. Its flight period is year round.[1]
Larvae feed on Capparis citrifolia and Capparis sepiaria.[1][2]
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:[2]
- D. c. charina (southern Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland)
- 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
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