Acraea zetes
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. zetes |
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| Acraea zetes (Linnaeus, 1758)[1] | |
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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, Sao Tome and Principe, Angola, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.[2] 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 Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Malawi, Zambia)
- Acraea zetes annobona d'Abrera, 1980 (Equatorial Guinea: island of Annobon, Sao Tome and Principe: island of Sao Tome)
- Acraea zetes rudolfi Eltringham, 1929 (northern Kenya and possibly north-eastern Uganda)
- Acraea zetes sidamona Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (Ethiopia)
References
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- ↑ Acraea, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini
External links
- Linnnaean collections photos of the holotype held by the Linnean Society
- Acraea zetes Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
- Images representing Acraea zetes at Bold.
- Images representing Acraea zetes annobona at Bold.
- Acraea zetes zetes at Pteron
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