Acraea caecilia

Updated on Dec 20, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Acraea

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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