Pinacopteryx is a monotypic genus of pierid butterflies found in Africa containing Pinacopteryx eriphia, the zebra white.[1]
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| Genus: | Pinacopteryx Wallengren, 1857
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| Species: | P. eriphia
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| Pinacopteryx eriphia (Godart, [1819])
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The wingspan is 40–55 mm in males and 42–47 mm in females. Its flight period is year-round.[2]
Larvae feed on Maerua cafra, Boscia species, Capparis oleoides, and Maerua triphylla.[1][2]
Subspecies
edit- Pinacopteryx eriphia eriphia (Godart, [1819]) (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, southern Tanzania)
- Pinacopteryx eriphia mabillei (Aurivillius, [1898]) (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
edit- ^ a b Pinacopteryx at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
External links
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- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 10
- images representing Pinacopteryx at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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