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Acraea egina (Cramer, [1775])

Subspecies

  • [Acraea] egina egina (Cramer, [1775])
    - rudolphina (Herbst, 1792)
    - persephone (Fabricius, 1793)
    - zidora (Godart, [1819])
    - areca (Mabille, 1889)
    - khara (Grose-Smith, 1889)
    - harrisoni (Sharpe, 1904)
    - contraria (Grünberg, 1910)
    - alba (Eltringham, 1913)
    - intensa (Stoneham, 1937)
    - tenuimarginatus (Stoneham, 1937)
    - rubristriatus (Stoneham, 1937)
    - bellehui (Carcasson, 1961)

Adult morphologyWingspan35
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)1176
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)235
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
ALF:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
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:

  • Flacourtiaceae
    - Rawsonia
  • Passifloraceae
    - Adenia

  • Flacourtiaceae
    - Rawsonia
  • Passifloraceae
    - Adenia

Records


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




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