Acraea bonasia

Acraea bonasia
Acraea bonasia figure 5
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species: A. bonasia
Binomial name
Acraea bonasia
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio bonasia Fabricius, 1775
  • Acraea (Actinote) bonasia
  • Papilio cynthius Drury, 1782
  • Acraea praeponina Staudinger, 1896
  • Acraea bonasia siabona Suffert, 1904
  • Acraea bonasia ab. implicata Schultze, 1923
  • Acraea bonasia ab. tristis Schultze, 1923
  • Acraea bonasia f. flavistrigata Le Cerf, 1927
  • Acraea bonasia bonasia ab. obscura Dufrane, 1945

Acraea bonasia, the Bonasia Acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adult males mud puddle and visit patches of urine and animal excrement.

The larvae feed on Clappertonia ficifolia, Triumfetta macrophilla, Triumfetta ruwenzorensis, Triumfetta brachyceras, Triumfetta and Hibiscus species.

Subspecies

Taxonomy

Acraea bonasia is the nominate member of the Acraea bonasia species group see Acraea.

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