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Acraea zetes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acraea

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Similar
  
Acraea egina, Acraea pseudegina, Acraea quirina, Acraea neobule, Acraea jodutta

Acraea zetes, the large spotted acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of open deciduous forests and woodland savanna.

The larvae feed on Theobroma cacao, Basananthe zanzibaricum, Adenia cisampelloides, Adenia lobata, Barteria acuminata, Phyllobotryum spathulatum, Smeathmannia, Passiflora, Deidama, Tacsonia and Hydnocarpus species

Subspecies

  • Acraea zetes zetes (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, northern Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Malawi, Zambia)
  • Acraea zetes annobona d'Abrera, 1980 (Equatorial Guinea: island of Annobon, São Tomé and Príncipe: island of São Tomé)
  • Acraea zetes rudolfi Eltringham, 1929 (northern Kenya and possibly north-eastern Uganda)
  • Acraea zetes sidamona Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (Ethiopia)

    • References

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