Acraea bomba

Acraea bomba
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. bomba
Binomial name
	Acraea bomba; Grose-Smith, 1889
Synonyms
	Acraea (Actinote) bomba; Acraea anacreon bomba;

Acraea bomba, the Bomba acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and on the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe.^[3]

Description[]

Very similar to Acraea anacreon qv. for diagnosis

The habitat consists of grassland and open woodland.

Adults are on wing year round.

The larvae feed on , Aeschynomene, Adenia and species.

It is a member of the Acraea rahira species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[4]

^ Grose-Smith, H. 1889. Descriptions of twenty-four new species of butterflies captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3: 121-137.
^ "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.
^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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