Acraea encedon (Linné, 1758)

Subspecies

• [Acraea] encedon encedon (Linné, 1758)
  - lycia (Fabricius, 1775)
  - sganzini (Boisduval, 1833)
  - fulva (Doubleday, [1848])
  - daira (Godman & Salvin, 1884)
  - braunei (Staudinger, 1885)
  - infuscata (Staudinger, 1885)
  - usagarae (Vuillot, 1891)
  - ascrepticia (Strand, 1912)
  - fumosa (Aurivillius, 1913)
  - commixta (Poulton, 1913)
  - alcippoides (Le Doux, 1923)
  - nigeriae (Schultze, 1923)
  - perradiata (Le Cerf, 1927)
  - carbonaria (Le Cerf, 1927)
  - poultoni (Le Doux, 1931)
  - infuscatoides (Le Doux, 1931)
  - umbratalcippina (Le Doux, 1931)
  - lycoides (Le Doux, 1931)
  - fulvoides (Le Doux, 1931)
  - encedonoides (Le Doux, 1931)
  - aurantiaca (Le Doux, 1931)
  

Adult morphology	Wingspan	25
Literature references	Species number (Larsen 2005)	1153
	Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)	254
Habitat	Habitat preference [1]	UBQ: Can be found in nearly all types of habitats UBQ
Distribution	Geographical distribution [2]	AFR: Practically found throughout Africa in suitable habitats as indicated AFR

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

• Commelinaceae
  - Commelina

• Commelinaceae
  - Commelina