Belenois calypso, the Calypso white or Calypso caper white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests. The species occasionally migrates.
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| male B. c. calypso, Ghana | |
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| female B. c. calypso, Gambia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Belenois |
| Species: | B. calypso
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| Belenois calypso | |
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The larvae feed on Semirestis paniculata, Maerua, Cadaba, Capparis and Ritchiea species.
Subspecies
edit- B. c. calypso (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau. Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria)
- B. c. dentigera Butler, 1888 (Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Angola)
- B. c. marlieri Berger, 1981 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- B. c. minor Talbot, 1943 (Uganda, Kenya (west of the Rift Valley), north-western Tanzania)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Belenois calypso.
- ^ Belenois, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Incertae Sedis". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-05-07.
External links
edit- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 13
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 15 as dentigera
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