Belenois
Introduction B. gidica'', Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania'''''Belenois''''', commonly called the '''caper whites''', is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierini in the family Pieridae that are found in mainly in Africa and south-west Asia.
Species Subgenus '''''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 caperSpecies group '''''pseudohuphina''''':*''Belenois margaritacea'' Sharpe, 1891 – Margarita's caper white*''Belenois raffrayi'' (Oberthür, 1878) – Raffray's whiteGroup ''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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