Acraea zetes
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. zetes
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Acraea zetes, the large spotted Acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Namibia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of open deciduous forests and woodland savanna.
The larvae feed on Theobroma cacao, , , , , , Smeathmannia, Passiflora, , Tacsonia and Hydnocarpus species
Subspecies[]
- Acraea zetes zetes (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, northern Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Malawi, Zambia)
- Acraea zetes annobona d'Abrera, 1980 (Equatorial Guinea: island of Annobon, São Tomé and Príncipe: island of São Tomé)
- Acraea zetes rudolfi Eltringham, 1929 (northern Kenya and possibly north-eastern Uganda)
- Acraea zetes sidamona Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (Ethiopia)
A. z. anobonna upper side
and underside São Tomé and Príncipe
References[]
- ^ "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 2012-05-31.
External links[]
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Wikispecies has information related to Acraea zetes. |
- Linnnaean collections photos of the holotype held by the Linnean Society
- Acraea zetes Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
- Images representing Acraea zetes at Bold
- Images representing Acraea zetes annobona at Bold
- Acraea zetes zetes at Pteron
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