Pseudacraea warburgi
Pseudacraea warburgi, the incipient false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (from the western part of the country to the Bwamba Valley).[3]
| Pseudacraea warburgi | |
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| In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Pseudacraea |
| Species: | P. warburgi |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudacraea warburgi | |
Description
Very similar to Pseudacraea hostilia q.v. for differences.
Biology
The habitat consists of forest.
It is a mimic of an Acraea species.
The larvae feed on Strephanema, Manilkara and Combretum species.
References
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- Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1892. Verzeichniss, Einer von Herrn Fritz Theorin aus Gabun und dem Gebeite des Camerunflusses Heimgebrachten Schmetterlings-Sammlung. Entomologisk Tidskrift 13: 181-200.
- "Pseudacraea Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
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