title: Belenois creona
text: # Belenois creona
  
  Belenois creona, the African common white or African caper, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm.
  
  ## Description
  
  The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The sexes are dimorphic.
  
  ### Males
  
  Uppersides are white with black or brown marginal borders and veins in forewing apex. There is a black spot in the upperside cell, instead of a bar as in the brown-veined white (B. aurota).
  
  ### Females
  
  Females have broader dark upperside borders on both wings. Underwings are yellow during the wet season.
  
  ## Ecology
  
  The larvae feed on Capparis and Maerua species.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  The following subspecies are recognised:
  
  * B. c. creona (Senegal to Nigeria, Sudan, east Ethiopia)
  * B. c. benadirensis (in Somalia)
  * B. c. boguensis Ethiopia
  * B. c. elisa (on the Comoros)
  * B. c. leucogyne (on the Arabian Peninsula)
  * B. c. prorsus (on Madagascar)
  * B. c. severina (South Africa to east Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  