Acraea abdera

Acraea abdera, the Abdera acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo .[2] The habitat consists of forest edges.

Acraea abdera
Acraea abdera eginopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. abdera
Binomial name
Acraea abdera
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) abdera
  • Acraea cepheus var. eginopsis Aurivillius, 1899
  • Acraea cepheus f. nigrescens Eltringham, 1912

Both sexes mud-puddle in hot, dry weather.

The larvae feed on Caloncoba gilgiana, Caloncoba glauca and Oncoba spinosa.

Subspecies
  • Acraea abdera abdera (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Sudan, Uganda)
  • Acraea abdera eginopsis Aurivillius, 1899 (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
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References
  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-31.


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