Acraea caecilia
Acraea caecilia, the pink acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.[2] The habitat consists of savanna and dry thornbush.
Acraea caecilia | |
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A. c. pudora and related species | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. caecilia |
Binomial name | |
Acraea caecilia | |
Synonyms | |
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The larvae feed on Wormskioldia (including W. pilosa) and Adenia species (including A. cissampeloides).
Subspecies
- A. c. caecilia (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, northern Nigeria, Chad, southern Sudan, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
- A. c. kulal van Someren, 1936 (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal and Mount Marsabit)
- A. c. pudora Aurivillius, 1910 (eastern Kenya, eastern and central Tanzania, northern Malawi)
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References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Acraea caecilia. |
Wikispecies has information related to Acraea caecilia |
- "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
External links
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 55 g ssp. pudora
- Images representing Acraea caecilia at Bold
- Acraea caecilia caecilia at Pteron
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