Acraea disjuncta

Acraea disjuncta is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Uganda.[2]

Acraea disjuncta
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. disjuncta
Binomial name
Acraea disjuncta
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) disjuncta

The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron.

Subspecies

  • Acraea disjuncta disjuncta (western Kenya, Uganda)
  • Acraea disjuncta kigeziensis Jackson, 1956 (Uganda: west to Toro and Kigezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu and Ituri)
gollark: It's my scroll goals to have cool-looking things, and while I *kind of* like lots of them, I don't really bother to gather them.
gollark: I can do... precisely none of that, due to not actually having half those breeds as CBs.
gollark: I bet you can split the breeding across multiple people on here pretty well.
gollark: _also wants it now_
gollark: Well, this is very annoying. I think my sunrise/set is going to be at 4d juuuust outside of the time when it's allowed to hatch.

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 2012-06-05.


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