Cepora perimale
Encyclopedia
The Caper Gull is a butterfly
in the Pieridae
family. It is found on Norfolk Island
and in New South Wales
, the Northern Territory
, Queensland
, Victoria
, Western Australia
, Fiji
, Irian Jaya, Maluku
, Sulawesi
, New Caledonia
, Papua New Guinea
, the Solomon Islands
and Vanuatu
.
The wingspan
is 40 mm.
The larvae feed on Capparis canescens, Capparis mitchellii
and Capparis sepiaria.
Butterfly
A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...
in the Pieridae
Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...
family. It is found on Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
and in New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, the Northern Territory
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
, Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
, Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
, Irian Jaya, Maluku
Maluku Islands
The Maluku Islands are an archipelago that is part of Indonesia, and part of the larger Maritime Southeast Asia region. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone...
, Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
, New Caledonia
New Caledonia
New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
, the Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...
and Vanuatu
Vanuatu
Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
.
The wingspan
Wingspan
The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...
is 40 mm.
The larvae feed on Capparis canescens, Capparis mitchellii
Capparis mitchellii
The "Wild Orange" is an Australian native plant. Its scientific name is Capparis mitchellii; it is not related to oranges and neither to the Osage-orange which is known as "wild orange" in North America, but to capers. Its name in the Arrernte language of Central Australia is merne atwakeye.Wild...
and Capparis sepiaria.
Subspecies
- Cepora perimale perimale (Norfolk Island)
- Cepora perimale scyllara (Macleay, 1826) -Australian Gull (northern Australia to the Hunter River, New South Wales)
- Cepora perimale pitys Godart, 1819 (Timor)
- Cepora perimale wetterensis Grose-Smith (Wetar Island)
- Cepora perimale pygmaea Röber, 1891 (Leti Island)
- Cepora perimale pityna Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Damar Island)
- Cepora perimale babberica Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Babar Island)
- Cepora perimale consanguinea Butler (Tanimber Group)
- Cepora perimale bolana Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Kai Island)
- Cepora perimale perictione Felder, 1865 (Aru)
- Cepora perimale wallaceana (C. & R. Felder, 1865) (Waigeu)
- Cepora perimale dohertyana (Grose-Smith, 1894) (West Irian to southern New Guinea)
- Cepora perimale latilimbata (Butler, 1876) (Darnley Island, Papua)
- Cepora perimale mithra Fruhstorfer, 1903 (Fergusson Island)
- Cepora perimale chrysopis Fruhstorfer, 1910 (Neomfor Island, Geelvink Bay)
- Cepora perimale leucophorus Grose-Smith, 1897 (Trobriand Islands)
- Cepora perimale acrisa Boisduval, 1859 (New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands)
- Cepora perimale quadricolor (Godman & Salvin, 1877) (New Britain, New Ireland, New Hanover, Duke of York Group)
- Cepora perimale agnata Grose-Smith, 1889 (Guadalcanal, Roviana)
- Cepora perimale discolor Mathew, 1887 (Ugi, Ulana Islands)
- Cepora perimale macdonaldi (Ribbe, 1898) (Bougainville)
- Cepora perimale maculata Grose-Smith, 1896 (New Britain)
- Cepora perimale radiata Howarth, 1962 (Bellona Island, Somonons)