Acraea (Actinote) acerata Hewitson, 1874

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 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068295
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFDD-FFD3-FF0E-FF59FCBAFE52
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Acraea (Actinote) acerata Hewitson, 1874
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*188. Acraea (Actinote) acerata Hewitson, 1874 View in CoL

WL: 20mm. A. acerata is a forest species, now reported for the first time for Guinea-Bissau . This constitutes the northernmost record of this species, as it was formerly known from Sierra Leone to Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, DRC, Sudan and Kenya, and south to Mozambique, northern Botswana and northern Namibia. The caterpillars feed on Ipomoea, Lepistemum and Merremia (Convolvulaceae) , Passiflora (Passifloraceae) and Solanum (Solanaceae) .

Studied material. Gabú: Beli (Boé), 0 2.07.2009, 1♀ (BS 29339).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.