Acraea (Acraea) neobule neobule Doubleday, 1847

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

196. Acraea (Acraea) neobule neobule Doubleday, 1847

WL: 23mm. The species is known to occur in savanna and cultivated areas throughout the Afrotropical Region. A. n. seis, described from Gambia and reported to extend from Senegal to Nigeria, is presently considered in the nominate subspecies synonymy as a somewhat darker morph (Larsen, 2005); subspecies A. n. arabica occurs in southwest Arabia and A. n. legrandi in the Seychelles. Caterpillars feed on species of Passifloraceae , Tiliaceae , Malvaceae and Convolvulaceae .

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, rare (JB).

Previous references. Regions: Without a precise location. Authors: Larsen (2005), Consciência et al. (2008).

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