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Acraea egina (Cramer, [1775])
Subspecies
[
Acraea
] egina egina (Cramer, [1775])
-
rudolphina
(Herbst, 1792)
-
persephone
(Fabricius, 1793)
-
zidora
(Godart, [1819])
-
areca
(Mabille, 1889)
-
khara
(Grose-Smith, 1889)
-
harrisoni
(Sharpe, 1904)
-
contraria
(Grünberg, 1910)
-
alba
(Eltringham, 1913)
-
intensa
(Stoneham, 1937)
-
tenuimarginatus
(Stoneham, 1937)
-
rubristriatus
(Stoneham, 1937)
-
bellehui
(Carcasson, 1961)
Adult morphology
Wingspan
35
Literature references
Species number (Larsen 2005)
1176
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)
235
Habitat
Habitat preference
[1]
ALF
:
Generally found in all types of forest
ALF
Distribution
Geographical distribution
[2]
WWT
:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to the coastal forests of East Africa
WWT
Biology
Flight period:
Ecology
Host plants:
Flacourtiaceae
- Rawsonia
Passifloraceae
- Adenia
Flacourtiaceae
- Rawsonia
Passifloraceae
- Adenia
Records
1.
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Larsen (2010)
2.
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Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011