Acraea camaena
Species of butterfly
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Acraea camaena, the large smoky acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, the Republic of the Congo and Angola (the Cabinda enclave).[3]
| Large smoky acraea | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. camaena |
| Binomial name | |
| Acraea camaena | |
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Description
A. camaena Drury (53 f). Forewing unicolorous smoke-black with black median spot but otherwise entirely without markings. Hindwing beyond the middle smoke-black with large free basal and discal dots, before the marginal band yellowish; marginal band incised at the veins, deep black with white dots. Sierra Leone to Nigeria and Fernando Po. [4]
Biology
The habitat consists of dry forests, including open coastal forests.
Both sexes are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on Premna hispida and Smeathmannia pubescens.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea terpsicore species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
