Dixeia orbona
Species of butterfly
Creamy small white | |
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Male D. o. orbona, Gambia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Dixeia |
Species: | D. orbona |
Binomial name | |
Dixeia orbona (Geyer, [1837])[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Dixeia orbona, the creamy small white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Sudan, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of open woodland and open montane forests, particularly forest-grassland mosaic.
The larvae feed on Capparis species.
Subspecies
- Dixeia orbona orbona (Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon)
- Dixeia orbona vidua (Butler, 1900) (Sudan, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania)
References
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- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14
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