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Acraea natalica (Natal Acraea)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Natal acraea (Acraea natalica) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from KwaZulu-Natal to Zimbabwe and in Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, southern DRC (Katanga), Tanzania and eastern Kenya. The wingspan is 55–65 mm. Adults are on the wing year round, with a strong peak in late summer in southern Africa. The larvae feed on Adenia gummifera, Passiflora species (including P. coerulea) and Tricliceras longipedunculatum.
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Infraspecies

Acraea natalica mesoleuca
Acraea natalica natalica
Acraea natalica oatesi
Acraea natalica umbrata

Prey / Diet

Adenia cissampeloides[1]
Adenia lobata[1]
Passiflora caerulea (blue passion flower)[2]
Passiflora foetida (scarletfruit passionflower)[2]

External References

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.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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