Pinacopteryx eriphia

Zebra White
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Pierini
Genus:	Pinacopteryx Wallengren, 1857
Species:	P. eriphia
Binomial name
*Pinacopteryx eriphia* (Godart, [1819])
Synonyms
Pieris eriphia Godart, [1819]

Pinacopteryx is a monotypic genus of pierid butterflies found in Africa containing the Zebra White (Pinacopteryx eriphia).^[1]

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

Larva feed on Maeris cafra, Boscia spp., Capparis oleoides, and Maerua triphylla.^[1]^[2]

Subspecies

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

^ ^a ^b Pinacopteryx, funet.fi
^ ^a ^b Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.