Belenois

Belenois;
Clasificación científica
Reinu:	Animalia
Filu:	Arthropoda
Clas:	Insecta
Orde:	Lepidoptera
Familia:	Pieridae
Subfamilia:	Pierinae
Tribu:	Pierini
Xéneru:	Belenois; Hübner, [1819]
Especies
	Ver testu
Sinonimia
	Anaphaeis (Hübner, 1819); Glycestha (Billberg, 1820); Pseudohuphina (Stoneham, 1940); Pseudanaphaeis (Bernard, 1953)
Consultes
	[editar datos en Wikidata]

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

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

Enllaces esternos

[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

[original-3] Verz. bekannt.

[LamasGenera-4] Genera and Genus-group Names of the Butterflies of the World

[Williams2003-5] Afrotropical Checklist

[HOSTS_DB-6] HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants.

[Larsen_2005,_West_African_Lepidoptera-7] Butterflies of West Africa.

[Kroon,_1999-8] Lepidoptera of Southern Africa.

[Braby_&_Trueman_2006-9] Evolution of llarval host plant associations and adaptive radiation in pierid butterflies.

[Funet-10] Lepidoptera and some other life forms.

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