Acraea caecilia

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.[2] The habitat consists of savanna and dry thornbush.

Acraea caecilia
mating in Pendjari National Park
A. c. pudora and related species
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. caecilia
Binomial name
Acraea caecilia
(Fabricius, 1781)[1]
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

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

Subspecies
  • 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)

References
  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.


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