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Acraea circeis (Drury, 1782)

- mandane (Fabricius, 1793)
- opis (Herbst, 1793)
- leona (Staudinger, 1896)
- leonina (Bethune-Baker, 1903)

Adult morphologyWingspan24
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)1144
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)253
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
ALF:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWC:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending only to Cameroun, Congo, Gabon, CAR
WWC

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

  • Urticaceae
    - Urera

  • Urticaceae
    - Urera

Records

1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011