Acraea cuva
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| Acraea cuva Grose-Smith, 1889[1]
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Acraea cuva, the chic acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania and in Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat probably consists of forests.
Both sexes feed from the flowers of Lantana species.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Acraea cuva.
Wikispecies has information related to Acraea cuva.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini
External links
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 a
- Images representing Acraea cuva at Bold
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