Pinacopteryx

Pinacopteryx is a monotypic genus of pierid butterflies found in Africa containing Pinacopteryx eriphia, the zebra white.^[1]

Zebra white
Both Pinacopteryx eriphia tritogenia, in Senegal
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Teracolini
Genus:	Pinacopteryx Wallengren, 1857
Species:	P. eriphia
Binomial name
Pinacopteryx eriphia (Godart, [1819])
Synonyms
Pieris eriphia Godart, [1819] Herpaenia eriphia var. nyassae Lanz, 1896 Herpaenia eriphia var. mabillei Aurivillius, [1899] Pieris [Herpaenia] callianira Mabille, 1899 Herpaenia melanarge Butler, 1886 Herpaenia iterata Butler, 1888 Pontia tritogenia Klug, 1829 Herpaenia lacteipennis Butler, 1876 Herpaenia eriphia var. straminea Aurivillius, 1904 Pinacopteryx eriphia wittei Berger, 1940

The wingspan is 40–55 mm in males and 42–47 mm in females. Its flight period is year-round.^[2]

Larvae feed on Maerua cafra, Boscia species, Capparis oleoides, and Maerua triphylla.^[1][2]

Subspecies

• Pinacopteryx eriphia eriphia (Godart, [1819]) (South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Malawi, southern Tanzania)
• Pinacopteryx eriphia mabillei (Aurivillius, [1898]) (Madagascar)
• Pinacopteryx eriphia melanarge (Butler, 1886) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, central Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, northern Uganda, northern Tanzania)
• Pinacopteryx eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829) (Mauritania to Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger, Chad, Sudan, northern Ethiopia, Arabia)
• Pinacopteryx eriphia wittei Berger, 1940 (western Uganda, north-eastern DRC)

References

1. Pinacopteryx at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

External links

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 10
• images representing Pinacopteryx at Consortium for the Barcode of Life