Dixeia charina, the African small white,Markku Savela's pages: http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/pierinae/dixeia/index.html is a butterfly in the family Pieridae and is native to southeastern Africa.
The wingspan is 34–40 mm in males and 36–42 mm in females. Its flight period is year-round.
Larvae feed on Capparis citrifolia and Capparis sepiaria.
Subspecies Listed alphabetically: D. c. charina (southern Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini) D. c. dagera (Suffert, 1904) (Tanzania) D. c. liliana (Grose-Smith, 1889) (eastern and coastal Kenya, northern Tanzania) D. c. narena (Grose-Smith, 1898) (Madagascar) D. c. pulverulenta (Dixey, 1929) (Kenya) D. c. septentrionalis Bernardi, 1958 (eastern and northern Ethiopia) D. c. simana Hopffer, 1855 (northern Mozambique)
References
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 14