Acraea (Acraea) egina egina ( Cramer, 1775 )

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

191. Acraea (Acraea) egina egina ( Cramer, 1775)

WL: 35mm. This subspecies is known from all types of forest, and ranges from Gambia to Nigeria and through equatorial Africa to Uganda, Kenya and south Sudan. Several subspecies have been previously described from East Africa; however, Pierre & Bernaud (2013, 2014) recently placed all of them in the nominate subspecies synonymy, with the exception of A. e. bellehui. Host-plants are reported to be some species of Flacourtiaceae and Passifloraceae .

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

Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Quinara, Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1948, 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.