| Black-winged acraea | |
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| Figures 4, 5 and 6 as Acraea dissociata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. asboloplintha |
| Binomial name | |
| Acraea asboloplintha | |
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Acraea asboloplintha, the black-winged acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. [3]
A. asboloplintha Karsch (54 a). A very distinct species. Forewing above unicolorous dark smoky black with indistinct discal dots and occasionally at the hindmargin in the middle of 1 a with red-yellow scaling, beneath light yellowish brown with distinct discal dots, black fringes and very fine marginal line. Hindwing above light orange-yellow, at the base black as far as vein 2 and with free black discal dots and black fringes, beneath at the base and inner margin red, then light yellowish and beyond the discal dots with light orange-yellow transverse band 4 mm. in breadth, which does not reach the distal margin, so that a light yellowish transverse band is formed. In the female the hindwing above is often yellow-brown instead of orange-yellow. Ruwenzori, Uganda and British East Africa - rubescens Eltr. differs in having the hindwing above rose-coloured, while the forewing has a hindmarginal spot of the same colour, which covers the base of cellule 2 and also a part of the cell. In the female the corresponding parts are white. British East Africa. [4]
The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.
The larvae feed on Basananthe zanzibarica and Adenia lobata .
It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014. [5]
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