Acraea (Acraea) pseudegina Westwood, 1852

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 : 49-50

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scientific name	Acraea (Acraea) pseudegina Westwood, 1852
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192. Acraea (Acraea) pseudegina Westwood, 1852 View in CoL

WL: 34mm. A. pseudegina occurs more frequently in savanna, though it may also colonize forest and agricultural areas. It ranges from Senegal to Angola, Uganda, northwestern Tanzania , western Kenya, Ethiopia and southern Sudan. The caterpillars are known on some species of Passifloraceae .

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, rarely seen (JB).

Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Biombo, Bissau, Gabú, Quinara, Tombali. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1948, 1949), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Larsen (2005), Consciência et al. (2008).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.

References

Aurivillius, C. (1910) Schmetterlinge gesammelt in Westafrika von Leonardo Fea in dem Jahren 1897 - 1902. Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale da Genova, 44, 502 - 506.

Bacelar, A. (1948) Lepidopteros de Africa principalmente das Colonias Portuguesas. Arquivos do Museu Bocage, 19, 165 - 207.

Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.