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Acraea bonasia (Fabricius, 1775)
Subspecies
[
Acraea
] bonasia bonasia (Fabricius, 1775)
-
cynthius
(Drury, 1782)
-
praeponina
(Staudinger, 1896)
-
siabona
(Suffert, 1904)
-
implicata
(Schultze, 1923)
-
tristis
(Schultze, 1923)
-
flavistrigata
(Le Cerf, 1927)
-
obscura
(Dufrane, 1945)
Adult morphology
Wingspan
21
Literature references
Species number (Larsen 2005)
1165
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)
252
Habitat
Habitat preference
[1]
ALF
:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
Distribution
Geographical 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:
Malvaceae
- Hibiscus
Tiliaceae
- Clappertonia
- Triumfetta
Malvaceae
- Hibiscus
Tiliaceae
- Clappertonia
- Triumfetta
Records
1.
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Larsen (2010)
2.
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Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011