Acraea pseudolycia astrigera Butler, 1899

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2018, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamily Helconiinae, Journal of Natural History 52 (39 - 40), pp. 2511-2552 : 2527

Acraea pseudolycia astrigera Butler, 1899

Larsen 1996: pl. 55, fig. 702i. d ’ Abrera 1997: 177 (3 figs). SI: Figure 14e – j.

Forewing length: male 24.5 – 36.5 mm [mean (n = 11) 32.20 mm, SD = 3.191]; female 32.0 – 37.0 mm [mean (n = 5) 34.02 mm, SD = 1.335].

Note: the sexes are broadly similar in colour pattern, both being variable in ground colour, although the males are less so. Most males are bright orange, but some are more olivaceous – as in f. ‘ brunnea ’ Eltringham, which occurs in both sexes. Females are rarely as orange as males. Female form ‘ emini ’ Weymer is slightly more obscure than ‘ brunnea ’; the whitish ‘ auasa ’ Gabriel, which seems only known from Ethiopia, is in overall coloration similar to the whitish females of A. pseudolycia pseudolycia from western and central Africa.