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Acraea caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)

Subspecies

  • [Acraea] caecilia caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)
    - hypatia (Drury, 1782)
    - artemesa (Stoll, 1790)
    - bendis (Hübner, [1819])
    - varia (Le Doux, 1923)

Adult morphologyWingspan27
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)1179
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)233
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
SUD:
Centered on the Sudan Savannah and the Sahel, extending south as vagrants/migrants
SUD
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWQ:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to most of the equatorial forest zone
WWQ

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

  • Passifloraceae
    - Adenia

  • Passifloraceae
    - Adenia

Records


1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011