Belenois creona
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Belenois creona, the African common white or African caper, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm. The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The sexes are dimorphic. Uppersides are white with black or brown marginal borders and veins in forewing apex. There is a black spot in the upperside cell, instead of a bar as in the brown-veined white (B. aurota).
Females have broader dark upperside borders on both wings. Underwings are yellow during the wet season. The larvae feed on Capparis and Maerua species. Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 13 Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 12 Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gonarezhou National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 2 | uMkhuze Game Reserve | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Lower Zambezi National Park | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 4 | Akagera National Park | 🇷🇼 Rwanda | |
| 5 | Liwonde National Park | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 6 | Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 7 | Mana Pools National Park | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 8 | Lake Mburo National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 9 | Mikumi National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 10 | Queen Elizabeth National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 11 | Lake Manyara National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 12 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 13 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 14 | Tsavo West National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 15 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 16 | Tarangire National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 17 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 18 | Amboseli National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 19 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 20 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 21 | Chobe National Park | 🇧🇼 Botswana | |
| 22 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lusaka | 🇿🇲 Zambia | |
| 2 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 3 | Dar es-Salaam | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 4 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 5 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 6 | Harare | 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe | |
| 7 | Pretoria | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report an African Caper sighting in Queen Elizabeth National Park on a given day, based on 28 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the most-seen of the 9 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February and May–June
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report an African Caper in Queen Elizabeth National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, March–April and September–October, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most African Caper sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
10th of 22
Of the 22 parks where we can rate African Caper sightings, Queen Elizabeth National Park ranks 10th at about 30%. The best odds are in Gonarezhou National Park (Zimbabwe, about 40%), uMkhuze Game Reserve (South Africa, about 40%) and Lower Zambezi National Park (Zambia, about 40%).
Same genus: Belenois
The closest relatives of the African Caper that you can see in Queen Elizabeth National Park (genus Belenois) are Yellow Caper White (about 10%) and False Dotted Border (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the African Caper is recorded against all the insects logged in Queen Elizabeth National Park (28 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
