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Acraea parrhasia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acraea

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Similar
  
Acraea jodutta, Acraea lycoa, Acraea pharsalus, Acraea bonasia, Acraea quirina

Acraea parrhasia, the yellow-veined acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Urtica species (including U. rigida) and Dioscorea smilacifolia.

Subspecies

  • A. p. parrhasia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
  • A. p. kenya van Someren & Rogers, 1926 (Kenya: north-eastern slopes of Mount Kenya and the Njombeni Hills)
  • A. p. limonata Eltringham, 1912 (Bioko)
  • A. p. orientis Aurivillius, 1904 (eastern and north-eastern Tanzania, Kenya: south-east to the Teita Hills)
  • A. p. servona Godart, 1819 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, southern Ethiopia, western Kenya, north-western Zambia)

    • References

    Acraea parrhasia Wikipedia
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