miniaturadeimagen|Belenois gidica, Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania Belenois ye un xéneru de caparines de la familia Pieridae.Verz. bekannt. Atópase n'África y suroeste d'Asia.
Descripción Especie tipu por monotípia Papilio calypso Drury, 1773.Genera and Genus-group Names of the Butterflies of the World
Diversidá Esisten 28 especies distribuyíes ente la rexón afrotropical y el suroeste d'Asia.Afrotropical Checklist
Plantes güéspedes Les especies del xéneru Belenois aliméntense de plantes de les families Brassicaceae, Salvadoraceae, Anacardiaceae, Verbenaceae, Celastraceae, Rhizophoraceae y Oleaceae. Les plantes güéspedes reportaes inclúin los xéneros Boscia, Capparis, Cleome, Maerua, Apophyllum, Crateva, Thilachium, Cadaba, Ritchiea, Niebuhria, Salvadora, Rhus, Clerodendrum, Brassica y Sinapis.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.
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
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