Dixeia capricornus

Capricorn white

Female

Female, upperside and underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Dixeia
Species:	D. capricornus
Binomial name
*Dixeia capricornus* (Ward, 1871)^[1]
Synonyms
Pieris capricornus Ward, 1871 Pieris adultera Plötz, 1880 Pieris capricornus nusprica Suffert, 1904 Dixeia cebron f. aurantiaca Talbot, 1943 Dixeia capricornus f. signata Talbot, 1943 Dixeia capricornus capricornus alba Bernardi, 1961 Dixeia capricornus capricornus ochracea Bernardi, 1961 Pieris falkensteinii Dewitz, 1879 Tachyris lindnerii Dewitz, 1879

Dixeia capricornus, the Capricorn white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and Angola.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Subspecies

Dixeia capricornus capricornus (eastern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, southern Nigeria, western and central Cameroon)
Dixeia capricornus falkensteinii (Dewitz, 1879) (southern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Angola)

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