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Acraea aurivillii

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acraea

Acraea aurivillii

Similar
  
Acraea parrhasia, Acraea quirina, Acraea jodutta, Acraea alciope, Acraea perenna

Acraea aurivillii, the large alciope acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia. The habitat consists of forests.

Contents

The larvae feed on Laportea podocarpa, Urera flamigniana, Urera gravenreuthii, Urera thorneri, Pouzolzia denudata, Urera hypselodendron and Adenia species.

Subspecies

  • Acraea aurivillii aurivillii (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, southern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
  • Acraea aurivillii schecana Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (south-western Ethiopia)

    • Etymology

    The name honours the Swedish entomologist Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius.

    References

    Acraea aurivillii Wikipedia
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