Belenois theora, the forest caper white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Guinea, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan and Tanzania. The habitat consists of woodland and forest margins.
The larvae feed on Capparis species.
Subspecies
B. t. theora Sierra Leone to Nigeria
B. t. ratheo (Suffert, 1904) Central African Republic
B. t. laeta (Weymer, 1903)
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