title: Belenois
text: # Belenois
  
  Belenois, commonly called the caper whites, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierini in the family Pieridae that are found in mainly in Africa and south-west Asia.
  
  ## Species
  
  Subgenus Anaphaeis Hübner, 1819:
  
  * Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) – brown-veined white, African caper white, or pioneer white
  * Belenois creona (Cramer, 1776) – African common white or African caper
  * Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819) – African veined white or pointed caper
  
  Species group pseudohuphina:
  
  * Belenois margaritacea Sharpe, 1891 – Margarita's caper white
  * Belenois raffrayi (Oberthür, 1878) – Raffray's white
  
  Group Incertae sedis:
  
  * Belenois albomaculatus (Goeze, 1779)
  * Belenois aldabrensis (Holland, 1896)
  * Belenois anomala (Butler, 1881)
  * Belenois antsianaka (Ward, 1870)
  * Belenois calypso (Drury, 1773) – Calypso caper white
  * Belenois crawshayi Butler, 1894 – Crawshay's caper white
  * Belenois diminuta Butler, 1894
  * Belenois grandidieri (Mabille, 1878)
  * Belenois hedyle (Cramer, 1777)
  * Belenois helcida (Boisduval, 1833)
  * Belenois java (Linnaeus, 1768) – caper white
  * Belenois larima (Boisduval, 1836)
  * Belenois mabella Grose-Smith, 1891
  * Belenois ogygia (Trimen, 1883)
  * Belenois rubrosignata (Weymer, 1901) – red-edged white
  * Belenois solilucis Butler, 1874
  * Belenois subeida (C. & R. Felder, 1865)
  * Belenois sudanensis (Talbot, 1929) – Sudan caper white
  * Belenois theora (Doubleday, 1846)
  * Belenois theuszi Dewitz, 1889
  * Belenois thysa (Hopffer, 1855) – false dotted border
  * Belenois victoria (Dixey, 1915) – Victoria white
  * Belenois welwitschii Rogenhofer, 1890
  * Belenois zochalia (Boisduval, 1836) – forest white or forest caper white
  