Acraea (Acraea) umbra umbra ( Drury, 1782 )

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 : 51

198. Acraea (Acraea) umbra umbra ( Drury, 1782)

WL: 38mm. The nominate subspecies occurs across West Africa from Gambia and Guinea-Bissau to eastern Nigeria , while A. u. macarioides is distributed from western Cameroon to western Tanzania and northern Zambia . A. u. carpenteri, described from the Bijagós Archipelago (no island reported), is currently considered in the nominate subspecies synonymy ( Pierre & Bernaud 2013, 2014). The caterpillars are reported to feed on Adenia cisampelloides (Passifloraceae).

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB)

Previous references. Regions: Bolama. Authors: Le Doux (1937), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Ackery et al. (1995), Larsen (2005), Consciência et al. (2008), Pierre & Bernaud (2013).

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