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Acraea caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)
Subspecies
[
Acraea
] caecilia caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)
-
hypatia
(Drury, 1782)
-
artemesa
(Stoll, 1790)
-
bendis
(Hübner, [1819])
-
varia
(Le Doux, 1923)
Adult morphology
Wingspan
27
Literature references
Species number (Larsen 2005)
1179
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)
233
Habitat
Habitat preference
[1]
SUD
:
Centered on the Sudan Savannah and the Sahel, extending south as vagrants/migrants
SUD
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:
Passifloraceae
- Adenia
Passifloraceae
- Adenia
Records
1.
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Larsen (2010)
2.
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Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011