Acraea (Acraea) caecilia caecilia ( Fabricius, 1781 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 50

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068309

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scientific name

Acraea (Acraea) caecilia caecilia ( Fabricius, 1781 )
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193. Acraea (Acraea) caecilia caecilia ( Fabricius, 1781) View in CoL

WL: 27mm. A. caecilia is typical of Sudan savanna, but may displace southwards during the dry season, establishing non-permanent populations. It ranges from West Africa to Chad, south Sudan, Ethiopia and western Kenya. A. c. kulal, considered a synonymy of the nominate subspecies ( Pierre & Bernaud 2013, 2014), can be found in the drier and higher areas of northern Kenya, while A. c. pudora is reported from eastern Kenya and the drier areas of Tanzania. Known host-plants are Wormskioldia pilosa (Turneraceae) and Adenia sp. ( Passifloraceae ).

Studied material. Biombo: Quinhamel , 22.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29342) . Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB) . Quinara: Cantanha ( PNLC), 18.07.2009, 1♀ (BS 29341) . Tombali: Saltinho , 0 8.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29390).

Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Bolama, Cacheu, Oio, Quinara Tombali. Auhors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Bivar-de-Sousa & Mendes (1999), Larsen (2005), Consciência et al. (2008).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.

Aurivillius, C. (1910) Schmetterlinge gesammelt in Westafrika von Leonardo Fea in dem Jahren 1897 - 1902. Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale da Genova, 44, 502 - 506.

Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.

Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D. (2014) Le genre Acraea Fabricius, 1807: Liste systematique, synonymique et liste des noms infrasubspecifiques. In: Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T. (Eds.) Butterflies of the World, Supplement 24, pp. 30.

Fabricius, J. C. (1781) Species Insectorum 2. Carol Ernest Bohhn, Hamburgi (Hamburg) & Kilonii (Kiel - Germany), [ii] + 499 pp.

Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D. (2013) Nymphalidae XXIII. Acraea subgenus Acraea. In: Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T. (Eds.), Butterflies of the World, Part 39, pp. 8 pp, pl. 28.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

SubFamily

Heliconiinae

Genus

Acraea

SubGenus

Acraea