Calypso Paper White entomology Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

This specimen is encased in a 4"x7" frame

which can sometimes be as long as its body

Strays can be found up to the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in the United States

Calypso Paper White entomology Burkina FasoBelenois 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. It's preferred habitat consists of forests. The species occasionally