Acraea caecilia

Pink acraea
	Mating in Pendjari NP, the male above
	A. c. pudora and related species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. caecilia
Binomial name
	Acraea caecilia; (Fabricius, 1781)
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 family Nymphalidae. 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 the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.^[3]

Description

A. caecilia F. is similar to the preceding species, edit

A. c. 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 the Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania
A. c. kulal van Someren, 1936 — Kenya: north to Mount Kulal and Mount Marsabit
A. c. pudora Aurivillius, 1910 — eastern Kenya, eastern and central Tanzania, northern Malawi

Biologyedit

The habitat consists of savanna and dry thornbush.

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

Taxonomyedit

It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.^[5]

Referencesedit

^ Fabricius, J.C. 1781 Species Insectorum Exhibentes Eorum Differentia Specifica, Synonyma Auctorum, Loca Natalia, Metamorphosin Adiectis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus 1-494
^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
^ Aurivillius, P.O.C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

External linksedit

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 55 g ssp. pudora
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[1] Fabricius, J.C. 1781 Species Insectorum Exhibentes Eorum Differentia Specifica, Synonyma Auctorum, Loca Natalia, Metamorphosin Adiectis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus 1-494

[funet-2] "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-3] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.

[4] Aurivillius, P.O.C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[5] Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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Pink acraea

Mating in Pendjari NP, the male above

A. c. pudora and related species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. caecilia
Binomial name
*Acraea caecilia* (Fabricius, 1781) ^[1]^[2]
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