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Belenois calypso (Calypso Caper White)

Synonyms: Pieris dentigera ratidengi

Wikipedia Abstract

Belenois calypso, the Calypso white or Calypso caper white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests. The species occasionally migrates. The larvae feed on Semirestis paniculata, Maerua, Cadaba, Capparis and Ritchiea species.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0