African caper
The African caper is a white butterfly found all over Africa south of the Sahara. The male is white with dark edges on its wings. In the rainy season the females get yellow undersides on their wings.
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Fun facts
Males and females look different. The females have much wider dark borders on their wings.
The male has one small black spot near the middle of each front wing.
There are several slightly different kinds of it, living from Senegal to South Africa and on islands like Madagascar.
Most asked questions about African caper
?What does the African caper caterpillar eat?
The leaves of caper bushes and some related plants.
?Where does the African caper live?
In most of Africa south of the Sahara, on Madagascar and the Comoros, and on the Arabian Peninsula.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Belenois creona
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- African common white
Where the facts come from
- Belenois creona (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Svdmolen. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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