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The flight period is all year. They have been described as having a medium-fast, random flight pattern or as a rather weak, slow flying butterfly. They keep to open areas in riverine forest and thick bush or the edges of bush areas. Both sexes feed from flowers and are greatly attracted to flowering
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The pupae have an unusual shape, with a pointed 'nose' and a notable spike on each side of the body protruding from a broad, flattened area midway down the body. There is a smaller spike both to the fore and rear of each of these larger spikes, and a small spike on each side of the body just to the
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The wingspan is 40–48 mm for males and 40–52 mm for females. The upperside of the wings of males is pure white with a narrow black forewing tip and small black dots on the hindwing margin. The underside is whitish with two rows of black spots on the hindwings, with the inner row sometimes
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absent or incomplete. The female has several colour forms, but is usually pale yellowish white on the uppersurface with heavier black markings than the male, and has a dark spot on each forewing. There is a rare female form (
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The larvae are green; pale green on the back and darker green on the sides when young, and develop two rows of pale green blotches down the length of the body as they grow older. The food plants are
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rear of the head. The larger spikes resemble to some extent the double, hooked thorns on the stems of the food plant,
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is that the hindwing costal has a yellow streak, unlike other
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Underside of female pupa; yellow wings showing through
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Captive raised female released onto larval food plant
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993:13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14
860:Butterflies of Southern Africa; A Field Guide
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913:. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik.
520:from Limpopo Province, South Africa
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660:bushes exposed to the sun.
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777:Female hatching from pupa
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58:Scientific classification
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909:Woodhall, Steve (2005).
978:Butterflies of Rhodesia
882:Markku Savela's pages:
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1214:Butterflies of Africa
858:Williams, M. (1994).
765:Pupa near to hatching
717:Larva about to pupate
681:, just a few days old
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449:ant-heap small white
261:Pinacopteryx astarte
16:Species of butterfly
976:Cooper, R. (1973).
801:Side view of female
290:Pieris rubrobasalis
253:Pieris saalmuelleri
241:Pieris rubrobasalis
940:2011-01-19 at the
645:Capparis tomentosa
631:Capparis tomentosa
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463:that is native to
366:Pieris pigea pigea
354:Pieris pigea pigea
342:Pieris pigea pigea
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548:South Africa
546:province of
544:Eastern Cape
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538:Distribution
518:rubrobasalis
517:
516:Female form
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490:rubrobasalis
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221:rubrobasalis
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217:Pieris pigea
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193:Pieris pigea
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167:Dixeia pigea
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1075:iNaturalist
479:Description
358:rubritincta
302:Pieris elia
115:Lepidoptera
1203:Categories
1172:Q109585252
989:Seitz, A.
957:2011-01-03
819:References
741:Green pupa
729:Brown pupa
677:Larvae of
594:Life cycle
568:Mozambique
560:Mpumalanga
430:erubescens
236:Lanz, 1896
224:Lanz, 1896
95:Arthropoda
1106:161326781
649:see image
504:species.
457:butterfly
418:lutescens
233:caffraria
175:Boisduval
143:Species:
81:Kingdom:
75:Eukaryota
1186:10929224
1166:Wikidata
1114:LepIndex
1093:11370405
1027:Q4778687
1021:Wikidata
938:Archived
602:Pupa of
588:Cameroon
576:Ethiopia
572:Zimbabwe
556:Eswatini
550:through
498:D. pigea
461:Pieridae
346:vulgaris
294:lathyana
184:Synonyms
125:Pieridae
121:Family:
91:Phylum:
85:Animalia
71:Domain:
1209:Pierini
1067:1919930
664:Gallery
486:luteola
455:, is a
406:luteola
394:citreus
382:citrina
334:reducta
177:, 1836)
131:Genus:
111:Order:
105:Insecta
101:Class:
52:Female
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885:Dixeia
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655:Adults
618:Larvae
584:Angola
502:Dixeia
465:Africa
447:, the
314:lathyi
245:nitida
136:Dixeia
1088:IRMNG
1041:3724M
638:Pupae
566:, to
370:lutea
243:var.
38:Male
1181:GBIF
1127:NCBI
1101:IUCN
1062:GBIF
915:ISBN
864:ISBN
628:and
610:Eggs
586:and
562:and
494:alba
380:ab.
292:ab.
231:ab.
219:ab.
1049:EoL
1036:CoL
580:DRC
451:or
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