Acraea bonasia

Acraea bonasia, the bonasia acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Acraea bonasia
both in Kakum National Park, Ghana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. bonasia
Binomial name
Acraea bonasia
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio bonasia Fabricius, 1775
  • Acraea (Actinote) bonasia
  • Papilio cynthius Drury, 1782
  • Acraea praeponina Staudinger, 1896
  • Acraea bonasia siabona Suffert, 1904
  • Acraea bonasia ab. implicata Schultze, 1923
  • Acraea bonasia ab. tristis Schultze, 1923
  • Acraea bonasia f. flavistrigata Le Cerf, 1927
  • Acraea bonasia bonasia ab. obscura Dufrane, 1945

Adult males mud-puddle and visit patches of urine and animal excrement.

The larvae feed on Clappertonia ficifolia, Triumfetta macrophilla, Triumfetta ruwenzorensis, Triumfetta brachyceras, Triumfetta and Hibiscus species.

Subspecies
  • Acraea bonasia bonasia (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan (south), Uganda (west), Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia)
  • Acraea bonasia banka Eltringham, 1912 (Ethiopia: highlands)

Taxonomy

Acraea bonasia is the nominate member of the Acraea bonasia species group see Acraea.

References
  1. Acraea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-04.


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