Acraea encedana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. encedana
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Acraea encedana, the encedana acraea or Pierre's acraea, is a
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.[3]
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.[4]
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea encedon species group.but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
- ISSN 0018-067X.
- ^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Acraea encedana.
Wikispecies has information related to Acraea encedana.
- Acraea encedana Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea encedana Image collection Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea encedana Archived 2020-01-27 at the Wayback Machine at Pteron
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