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| Mounted specimen of an imago from Somalia, and a late instar larva from Lagos, Nigeria, in Eltringham (1912) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. pseudegina
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| Binomial name | |
| Acraea pseudegina | |
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Acraea pseudegina is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, which is native to the African tropics and subtropics.
Description
Acraea pseudegina has a wingspan reaching about 45–55 millimetres (1.8–2.2 in). In this quite variable species the uppersides of the forewings are usually smoky black, with some black spots. Fringes are black except on the inner margins of both wings where they are yellowish. The uppersides of the hindwings have brick-red colour. An irregular row of nine spots shown by transparency from the underside crosses the discal area of the wings. The underside is similar to the upperside, but there is a series of black marking on the edge of the hindwings. It is very similar to Acraea natalica qv.
Distribution
This species can be found in Senegal, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, western Kenya, southern Ethiopia, Somalia and Angola.
Biology
The larvae feed on Passiflora and Cephalomma species.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014[2]
References
- ^ Westwood, J.O. 1852 in Doubleday, H. and Westwood, J.O. [1852] The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera, comprising their generic characters, a notice of their habitats and transformations, and a catalogue of the species of each genus; illustrated with 86 plates by W. C. Hewitson London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
- ^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf
- "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- BioLib
- Acraea
External links
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 55 f
- Images representing Acraea pseudegina at Bold.
- Acraea pseudegina
- Acraea pseudegina
- Papillons di Gabon
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