Pseudacraea warburgi

Pseudacraea warburgi, the incipient false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (from the western part of the country to the Bwamba Valley).[2] The habitat consists of forest.

Pseudacraea warburgi
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
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P. warburgi
Binomial name
Pseudacraea warburgi

It is a mimic of an Acraea species.

The larvae feed on Strephanema, Manilkara and Combretum species.

References

  1. "Pseudacraea Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini


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