Acraea abdera

Acraea abdera
Original illustrations (figures 1,2 ) in Hewitson's Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species: A. abdera
Binomial name
Acraea abdera
Hewitson, 1852[1]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) abdera
  • Acraea cepheus var. eginopsis Aurivillius, 1899
  • Acraea cepheus f. nigrescens Eltringham, 1912

Acraea abdera, the Abdera Acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Uganda and Republic of the Congo .[2] The habitat consists of forest edges.

Both sexes mud puddle in hot, dry weather.

The larvae feed on Caloncoba gilgiana, Caloncoba glauca and Oncoba spinosa.

Subspecies

References

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