Pinacopteryx
Monotypic butterfly genus in family Pieridae
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Pinacopteryx is a monotypic genus of pierid butterflies found in Africa containing Pinacopteryx eriphia, the zebra white.[1]
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| Pinacopteryx | |
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| Both male Pinacopteryx eriphia tritogenia, in Senegal | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Subfamily: | Pierinae |
| Tribe: | Pierini |
| Genus: | Pinacopteryx Wallengren, 1857 |
| Species: | P. eriphia |
| Binomial name | |
| Pinacopteryx eriphia (Godart, [1819]) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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
- 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)
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