Belenois
Clasificación científica
Reinu: Animalia
Filu: Arthropoda
Clas: Insecta
Orde: Lepidoptera
Familia: Pieridae
Subfamilia: Pierinae
Tribu: Pierini
Xéneru: Belenois
Hübner, [1819][1]
Especies
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Sinonimia

Anaphaeis (Hübner, 1819)
Glycestha (Billberg, 1820)
Pseudohuphina (Stoneham, 1940)

Pseudanaphaeis (Bernard, 1953)[2]
Consultes
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Belenois gidica, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Belenois ye un xéneru de caparines de la familia Pieridae.[3] Atópase n'África y suroeste d'Asia.

Descripción

Especie tipu por monotípia Papilio calypso Drury, 1773.[4]

Diversidá

Esisten 28 especies distribuyíes ente la rexón afrotropical y el suroeste d'Asia.[5]

Plantes güespedes

Les especies del xéneru Belenois  aliméntense de plantes de les families Brassicaceae, Salvadoraceae, Anacardiaceae, Verbenaceae, Celastraceae, Rhizophoraceae y Oleaceae. Les plantes güespedes reportaes inclúin los xéneros Boscia, Capparis, Cleome, Maerua, Apophyllum, Crateva, Thilachium, Cadaba, Ritchiea, Niebuhria, Salvadora, Rhus, Clerodendrum, Brassica y Sinapis.[6][7][8][9][10]

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

Referencies

  1. ↑ G. Lamas (2008) Genera and Genus-group Names of the Butterflies of the World, compartido por J. Mallet en The Taxome Project Home Page
  2. ↑ Belenois en BioLib
  3. ↑ Verz. bekannt.
  4. ↑ Xenera and Genus-group Names of the Butterflies of the World
  5. ↑ Afrotropical Checklist
  6. ↑ HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants.
  7. ↑ Butterflies of West Africa.
  8. ↑ Lepidoptera of Southern Africa.
  9. ↑ Evolution of llarval host plant associations and adaptive radiation in pierid butterflies.
  10. ↑ Lepidoptera and some other life forms.

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