Acraea (Acraea) camaena ( Drury, 1773 )

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 : 50-51

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068317

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFDC-FFD1-FF0E-F826FC9CFEC2

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Plazi

scientific name

Acraea (Acraea) camaena ( Drury, 1773 )
status

 

197. Acraea (Acraea) camaena ( Drury, 1773) View in CoL

WL: 32mm. This species flies in dry forest, usually in small numbers, though population explosions may occur. It ranges from Senegal to Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Congo and Angola. The caterpillars are known to feed on Passifloraceae and Verbenacaeae.

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

Previous references. Regions: Tombali. Authors: Ackery et al. (1995), D’Abrera (1997), Larsen (2005), Consciência et al. (2008).

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Acraea

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