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Acraea caecilia

Synonyms: Acraea artemisa; Acraea bendis; Acraea hypatia

Wikipedia Abstract

Acraea caecilia, the Pink Acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. The habitat consists of savanna and dry thornbush. The larvae feed on Wormskioldia (including Wormskioldia pilosa) and Adenia species (including Adenia cissampeloides).
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Adenia cissampeloides[1]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0