Acraea zetes

Acraea zetes
Acraea zetes zetes
Mating both in Gambia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. zetes
Binomial name
Acraea zetes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Papilio zetes Linnaeus, 1758 Acraea (Acraea) zetes Papilio menippe Drury, 1782 Telchinia mycenaea Hübner, 1819 Acraea jalema Godart, 1819

Acraea zetes, the large spotted Acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of open deciduous forests and woodland savanna.

The larvae feed on Theobroma cacao, Basananthe zanzibaricum, Adenia cisampelloides, Adenia lobata, Barteria acuminata, Phyllobotryum spathulatum, Smeathmannia, Passiflora, Deidama, Tacsonia and Hydnocarpus species

Subspecies

• Acraea zetes zetes (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, northern Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Malawi, Zambia)
• Acraea zetes annobona d'Abrera, 1980 (Equatorial Guinea: island of Annobon, São Tomé and Príncipe: island of São Tomé)
• Acraea zetes rudolfi Eltringham, 1929 (northern Kenya and possibly north-eastern Uganda)
• Acraea zetes sidamona Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (Ethiopia)

External links

• Linnnaean collections photos of the holotype held by the Linnean Society
• Acraea zetes Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
• Images representing Acraea zetes at Bold
• Images representing Acraea zetes annobona at Bold
• Acraea zetes zetes at Pteron