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Acraea encedana

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Species of butterfly

Acraea encedana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species: A. encedana
Binomial name
Acraea encedana
Pierre, 1976
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) encedana
  • Acraea encedon ab. alcippina Aurivillius, 1899
  • Acraea encedon ab. radiata Aurivillius, 1905
  • Acraea encedon f. dairalcippa Le Doux, 1923
  • Acraea encedon f. micropunctata Le Doux, 1931
  • Acraea encedon f. macropunctata Le Doux, 1931
  • Acraea encedon ab. radiofasciata Stoneham, 1943
  • Acraea encedana morph dairana Pierre, 1976

Acraea encedana, the encedana acraea or Pierre's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. The habitat consists of open areas near swampy ground.

Adults feed on the flowers of Tridax species.

The larvae feed on Desmodium salicifolium.

Mimicry

A. encendana is a Müllerian mimic of another butterfly which occurs in Uganda, Danaus chrysippus.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea encedon species group.but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014

References

  1. Pierre, J. 1976. Un nouveau cas d’espèces jumelles chez un papillon mimétique, Acraea encedon (L.) (Lépidoptère Acraeidae). Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l’Academie des Sciences, Paris (Sér. D) 282 (8): 731-734.
  2. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
  4. Smith, David AS; Owen, Denis F; Gordon, Ian J; Owiny, Agoroachai M (September 1993). "Heredity - Abstract of article: Polymorphism and evolution in the butterfly Danaus chrysippus (L.) (Lepidoptera: Danainae)". Heredity. 71 (3): 242–251. doi:10.1038/hdy.1993.132. ISSN 0018-067X.
  5. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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Taxon identifiers
Acraea encedana


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