Acraea circeis

Acraea circeis, the white acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, the Republic of the Congo, northern Angola and the south-western part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Acraea circeis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. circeis
Binomial name
Acraea circeis
(Drury, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio circeis Drury, 1782
  • Acraea (Actinote) circeis
  • Papilio mandane Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio opis Herbst, 1793
  • Acraea leona Staudinger, 1896
  • Acraea igola leonina Bethune-Baker, 1903
  • Acraea servona f. reversa Eltringham, 1912

The larvae feed on Urera oblongifolia.

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 2012-06-04.


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