Belenois calypso

{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}

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| image = Calypso caper white (Belenois calypso calypso) male.jpg

| image_caption = male B. c. calypso, Ghana

| image2 = Calypso caper white (Belenois calypso calypso) female.jpg

| image2_caption = female B. c. calypso, Gambia

| taxon = Belenois calypso

| authority = (Drury, 1773)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/pierinae/belenois/index.html Belenois], Site of Markku Savela

| synonyms =

• Papilio calypso Drury, 1773
• Papilio fulvoacuminatus Goeze, 1779
• Papilio nigronotatus Goeze, 1779
• Papilio nigropictus Goeze, 1779
• Belenois calypso f. lypsoca Berger, 1939
• Belenois calypso calypso f. cretacea Talbot, 1943
• Belenois dentigera Butler, 1888
• Pieris subeida var. schweinfurthi Schultze, 1914
• Pieris calypso var. costimacula Gaede, 1916
• Pieris calypso calypso ab. flavida Hulstaert, 1924
• Pieris calypso calypso ab. pulchricolor Hulstaert, 1924
• Anapheis calypso dentigera f. tshangerensis Dufrane, 1948
• Belenois calypso dentigera f. aurea Berger, 1981
• Belenois calypso minor f. butyrosa Talbot, 1943
• Belenois calypso f. nausicaa Stoneham, 1957
• Belenois calypso f. helena Stoneham, 1957
• Belenois calypso f. alcestis Stoneham, 1957
• Belenois calypso f. alcimede Stoneham, 1957
• Belenois calypso f. alcippe Stoneham, 1957

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Belenois calypso, the Calypso white or Calypso caper white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/pieridae_incertae.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pierini - Incertae Sedis |access-date=2012-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303215158/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/pieridae_incertae.doc |archive-date=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of forests. The species occasionally migrates.

The larvae feed on Semirestis paniculata, Maerua, Cadaba, Capparis and Ritchiea species.