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Acraea caecilia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acraea

Acraea caecilia

Similar
  
Acraea quirina, Acraea abdera, Acraea pseudegina, Acraea bonasia, Acraea zetes

Acraea caecilia, the pink acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. The habitat consists of savanna and dry thornbush.

The larvae feed on Wormskioldia (including W. pilosa) and Adenia species (including A. cissampeloides).

Subspecies

  • A. c. caecilia (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, northern Nigeria, Chad, southern Sudan, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • A. c. kulal van Someren, 1936 (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal and Mount Marsabit)
  • A. c. pudora Aurivillius, 1910 (eastern Kenya, eastern and central Tanzania, northern Malawi)

    • References

    Acraea caecilia Wikipedia
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