Acraea abdera

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Acraea abdera
Abdera Acraea (Acraea abdera eginopsis) (20942072823).jpg
Acraea abdera eginopsis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. abdera
Binomial name
Acraea abdera
Hewitson, 1852 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) abdera
  • Acraea cepheus var. eginopsisAurivillius, 1899
  • Acraea cepheus f. nigrescensEltringham, 1912

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 . [3]

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Description

Very close to Acraea cepheus qv.

Subspecies

Biology

The habitat consists of forest edges.

Both sexes mud-puddle in hot, dry weather.

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

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [4]

References

  1. ↑ Hewitson, W.C., 1852 Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson London : John Van Voorst, [1856]-1876.
  2. ↑ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ↑ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine


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