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Acraea encedana

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Acraea encedana, the Encedana Acraea or Pierre's Acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, the Democratic Republic of 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.
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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