Acraea encedana
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| Acraea encedana Pierre, 1976[1]
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Acraea encedana, the encedana acraea or Pierre's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.[2] The habitat consists of open areas near swampy ground.
Adults feed on the flowers of Tridax species.
The larvae feed on Desmodium salicifolium.
Mimicry
A. encendana is a Müllerian mimic of another butterfly which occurs in Uganda, Danaus chrysippus.[3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Acraea encedana.
Wikispecies has information related to Acraea encedana.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini
- ^ Smith, David AS; Owen, Denis F; Gordon, Ian J; Owiny, Agoroachai M (September 1993). "Heredity - Abstract of article: Polymorphism and evolution in the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danainae)". Heredity. 71 (3): 242–251. doi:10.1038/hdy.1993.132. ISSN 0018-067X.
External links
- Acraea encedana Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea encedana Image collection Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea encedana at Pteron
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