Acraea nohara

Acraea nohara
	Illustration (figure 1) in Hewitson's Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Acraeini
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. nohara
Binomial name
	Acraea nohara; Boisduval, 1847
Synonyms
	Acraea actiaca Hewitson, 1852; Acraea halali Marshall, 1896;

The Light Red Acraea (Acraea nohara) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from KwaZulu-Natal north through Zimbabwe to Kenya.

The wingspan is 40–48 mm for males and 43–50 mm for females. Adults are on wing from October to November and from January to March in southern Africa.^[2]

The larvae feed on Basananthe sandersonii and Tricicleras longipedunculatum.

Subspecies

Acraea nohara nohara (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province)
Acraea nohara halali Marshall, 1896 (Zimbabwe: Mashonaland, Manicaland)

References

^ Acraea, Site of Markku Savela
^ Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005.

External links

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 55 b

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[1] Acraea, Site of Markku Savela

[2] Woodhall, S. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2005.

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