Dixeia doxo, the black-veined white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae and is native to southern Africa.
Wingspan is 34âÂÂ40 mm in males and 36âÂÂ42 mm in females. Flight period is year-round.
Larvae feed on Capparis species.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.
- D. d. alberta (Grünberg, 1912) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, central and north-central Tanzania)
- D. d. costata Talbot, 1943 (Uganda, western Kenya, coast of Tanzania)
- D. d. doxo (Senegal, Burkina Faso, northern Ghana, northern Nigeria to western Sudan)
- D. d. parva Talbot, 1943 (Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa)
- D. d. venatus (Butler, 1871) (south-western Ethiopia, southern Sudan)
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