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Pseudacraea warburgi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Pseudacraea

Pseudacraea warburgi

Similar
  
Pseudacraea lucretia, Pseudacraea semire, Pseudacraea clarkii, Pseudacraea dolomena, Pseudacraea boisduvali

Pseudacraea warburgi, the incipient false acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (from the western part of the country to the Bwamba Valley). The habitat consists of forest.

It is a mimic of an Acraea species.

The larvae feed on Strephanoma, Manilkara and Combretum species.

References

Pseudacraea warburgi Wikipedia