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Belenois (caper whites)

Insecta - Lepidoptera - Pieridae

Taxonomy
Belenois was named by Hübner (1819). It is extant.

It was assigned to Pieridae by Zeuner (1942); and to Aporiina by Wahlberg et al. (2014).

Species

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1819Belenois Hübner p. 92
1942Belenois Zeuner p. 415
2014Belenois Wahlberg et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
Athalassocarida
LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
Cercofilata
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
RankNameAuthor
Panorpida
superorderAmphiesmenopteraKiriakoff 1948
Metamphiesmenoptera
Euamphiesmenoptera
Panendymenoptera
Endymenoptera
Stelloptera
orderLepidoptera
Angiospermivora
suborderGlossata()
CoelolepidaNielsen and Kristensen 1996
infraorderHeteroneuraTillyard 1918
EulepidopteraKiriakoff 1948
Euheteroneura
DitrysiaBorner 1925
ApoditrysiaMinet 1983
ObtectomeraMinet 1986
superfamilyPapilionoidea
familyPieridae
subfamilyPierinae
tribePierini
subtribeAporiina()
genusBelenois

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Belenois Hübner 1819 [caper whites]
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Belenois crawshayi Butler 1894 [Crawshay's caper white]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: Holocene or 0.01170 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 0.0 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Tanzania Belenois crawshayi (123991)