Acraea caecilia

Acraea caecilia
Acraea caecilia pudora and related species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. caecilia
Binomial name
Acraea caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio caecilia Fabricius, 1781 Acraea (Acraea) caecilia Papilio hypatia Drury, 1782 Papilio artemesa Stoll, 1790 Telchinia bendis Hübner, 1819 Acraea caecilia f. varia Le Doux, 1923 Acraea caecilia f. pudora Aurivillius, 1910 Acraea caecilia ab. umbrina Aurivillius, 1910 Acraea caecilia ab. nuda Wichgraf, 1914

Acraea caecilia, the Pink Acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.^[2] The habitat consists of savanna and dry thornbush.

The larvae feed on Wormskioldia (including Wormskioldia pilosa) and Adenia species (including Adenia cissampeloides).

Subspecies

• Acraea caecilia caecilia (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, northern Nigeria, Chad, southern Sudan, northern Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
• Acraea caecilia kulal van Someren, 1936 (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal and Mount Marsabit)
• Acraea caecilia pudora Aurivillius, 1910 (eastern Kenya, eastern and central Tanzania, northern Malawi)

References

1. Acraea, Site of Markku Savela
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 55 g ssp. pudora
• Images representing Acraea caecilia at Bold
• Acraea caecilia caecilia at Pteron