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Acraea insignis

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breadth, which beneath is often grey at the distal margin, at the base with large confluent black spots and with large discal dots in 1 b to 2, of which the one in 2 covers the base of the cellule, and with a thick black transverse streak at the end of the cell; the discal dots in cellules 3-7 are entirely absent; beneath as above, but much lighter reddish white with a red band at the proximal side of the black marginal band. In the female the ground-colour is often grey-yellowish. Nyassaland; German and British East Africa; Uganda, f.
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Dist. (53 e). Forewing above scaled with red-yellow to the apex of the cell and the hinder angle, in the apical part transparent black-grey, at the end of the cell with a black transverse streak, otherwise without markings. Hindwing red-yellow with narrow black, unspotted marginal band about 1 mm. in
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Suff. (54 a) is characterized by having the black spots in the basal part of the hindwing united into a large, deep black patch, which also covers the base of celhdes 3 to 6. German and British East Africa, especially in the high-lying localities.
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Distant, W.L. 1880. On some African species of lepidoptera belonging to the subfamily Nymphalinae.
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Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre
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Both sexes are attracted to flowers. Adults are probably on wing year round.
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Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Acraea
Binomial name
Distant
Synonyms
butterfly
Nymphalidae
Ethiopia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sudan
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Malawi
Zambia
Mozambique
Zimbabwe

Glossary of entomology terms
Vitis
Gossypium
Adenia

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