Belenois zochalia agrippinides ( Holland , 1896)

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2014, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: family Pieridae, subfamily Pierinae, Journal of Natural History 48 (25 - 26), pp. 1543-1583 : 1568-1569

Belenois zochalia agrippinides ( Holland, 1896)

Larsen 1996: pl. 8, figs 70 i,ii. d’ Abrera 1997: 89 (5 figs). SI: Figure 30a–f.

Forewing length: male 26–31 mm (mean (n = 12) 28.79 mm, SD = 1.190); female 24.5–33 mm (mean (n = 7) 28.29 mm, SD = 2.791).

Records. Abundant in open and forest habitats, 300–2700 m, in most parts of the country, including Mt Kilimanjaro ( Kielland 1990, p.63). Aurivillius (1910a) recorded this butterfly around Kibongoto and into the primary forest, flying up to 2000 m. Liseki (2009) encountered this taxon throughout the year, at both 2000 and 2500 m, and there is material in the BMNH from the lower slopes. Outside Tanzania this subspecies is found in Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and DRC (Ituri, Kivu), while the species as a whole occurs throughout most of eastern and southern Africa, with an outlier in Cameroon ( Ackery et al. 1995).

Males have a white ground colour and are relatively constant in appearance. Females generally have much broader and darker wing margins, most notably on the forewing. Females are also more variable, and occur with (male-like) ground colour to both wings, yellowish-white to both wings, or piebald, the very yellow hindwing discal coloration contrasting strongly with the white forewings (f. “flavipennis”).