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Acraea parrhasia (Fabricius, 1793)

Subspecies

  • [Acraea] parrhasia parrhasia (Fabricius, 1793)
    - parrhoppidia (Staudinger, 1896)
    - pseudoppidia (Strand, 1914)

  • [Acraea] parrhasia servona (Godart, 1819)
    - lycoides (Boisduval, 1836)
    - dejana (Godman & Salvin, 1890)
    - rhodina (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)
    - rubra (Eltringham, 1912)
    - tenebrosa (Eltringham, 1912)
    - digitata (Carpenter, 1935)
    - tenebrosana (Ackery, 1995)
    - subochreata (Grünberg, 1910)

Adult morphologyWingspan26
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)1149
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)260
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
MEF:
Centered on the moist semi-deciduous forest types
MEF
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWT:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to the coastal forests of East Africa
WWT

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

  • Urticaceae
    - Urera

  • Urticaceae
    - Urera

Records


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