Acraea egina

Acraea egina
Museum specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. egina
Binomial name
Acraea egina (Cramer, 1775)
Synonyms
Papilio egina Cramer, 1775 Acraea (Acraea) egina Papilio rudolphina Herbst, 1792 Papilio persephone Fabricius, 1793 Acraea zidora Godart, 1819 Acraea khara Grose-Smith, 1889 Acraea egina f. contraria Grünberg, 1910 Acraea egina f. alba Eltringham, 1913 Acraea egina intensa Stoneham, 1937 Acraea egina f. tenuimarginatus Stoneham, 1937 Acraea egina f. rubristriatus Stoneham, 1937 Acraea egina bellehui Carcasson, 1961 Acraea areca Mabille, 1889 Acraea harrisoni Sharpe, 1904

Acraea egina, the elegant acraea, is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family.

The wingspan of Acraea egina can reach 60–65 millimetres (2.4–2.6 in). Wings are basically brick red, with black spots on both forewings and hindwings and a quite large black margin on the hindwing upperside. These butterflies are closely mimicked by Pseudacraea boisduvali and by Graphium ridleyanus in the shade of color, in the cut of the wings and in the pattern of markings. The larvae of Acraea egina feed on Adenia lobata and Rawsonia species. They are whitish with black rings and black tubercules, while the pupae are pinkish brown.

This species can be found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

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