Acraea kraka | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. kraka |
Binomial name | |
Acraea kraka | |
Synonyms | |
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Acraea kraka, the kraka glassy acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. [3]
A. kraka Auriv. (53 b). Forewing to vein 2 and hindwing to the discal dots whitish yellow (male) or brown-yellow (female) (not black-grey as in the figure), otherwise hyaline; forewing usually with a black dot in the cell and with discal dots in 1 b and 2; hindwing in addition to the basal and discal dots usually with submarginal dots in 1 c and 2; marginal band diaphanous, 9 to 11 mm. in breadth. Cameroons, Fernando Po and Congo region in the primeval forests near Mawambi. [4]
The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Caloncoba species.
See Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
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