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Acraea natalica

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wings at the base blackish to about vein 2; the forewing with apical spot 4 to 5 mm. in breadth and black fringes, sometimes also with the veins narrowly black; a basal dot in the cell and in 1b at the outer edge of the black basal spot; discal dots 4 to 6, 9 and 10 united into a transverse streak placed almost vertically to the costal margin; submarginal dots in 1b to 3; hindwing with unspotted or indistinctly spotted black marginal band 4 to 5 mm. in breadth, which in the male is sharply defined, but in the female sometimes shades into the darkened ground-colour without sharp delimitation. Wings beneath lighter, not darkened at the base; forewing without dark apical spot; hind wing with bright red spots between the basal dots and between the discal dots and the marginal band at least in 1b to 3; the marginal band with large yellow marginal spots and always sharply defined proximally.
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Suff. differs in having on the fore wing immediately behind discal spots 4 to 6 a broad dark grey, somewhat transparent transverse band, extending from the costal margin to vein 3 and distally dentate at the veins; between this band and the dark apical spot four submarginal spots of the ground-colour
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Bdv. (55 f) varies greatly in size, but is on an average larger than the following species , having an expanse of 46 to 80 mm. The ground-colour of the wings above is reddish to orange-yellow or brown- yellow and occasionally in the females on the hindwing much darkened, dark red-brown; both
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in having the marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing a mere line or only indicated by some black scales and the marginal spots on the hindwing beneath very large and only separated by the veins; the grey subapical band of the fore wing is lighter, more transparent and more indistinctly
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are thus separated off in cellules 3 to 6. The marginal band of the hindwing above is narrower than in the type-form and irregularly defined proximally.
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Larva light yellow with white lateral line, white, black-edged dorsal line and a black streak on each side. Pupa yellowish white with black markings.
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defined. The female is darker and the ground-colour forms three whitish spots before the apex of the forewing.
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is 55–65 mm. Adults are on wing year round, with a strong peak in late summer in southern Africa.
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by having the fore wing above entirely or for the most part blackish or black-grey.
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Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre
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Westw. (55 f) is the north-western race and is distinguished from
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Catalogue des Lépidoptères recuellis par M. Delegorgue, 1833-1844
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Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter
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to Nigeria. Larva lighter than that of the type-form.
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Conservation status
Least Concern
IUCN 3.1
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Acraea
Binomial name
Boisduval
Synonyms
butterfly
Nymphalidae
East
southern Africa
KwaZulu-Natal
Zimbabwe
Mozambique
Malawi
Zambia
DRC
Katanga
Tanzania
Kenya

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