''Acraea acara'', commonly known as the acara acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae which is native to East and southern Africa.

Description

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Acraea zetes ''Acraea zetes'', the large spotted acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae which is native to sub-Saharan Africa. Range It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, To ...

'' for diagnosis The wingspan is 55–66 mm for males and 60–72 mm for females.

Range and habitat

It is found in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Katanga in the southern

DRC The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

, Malawi, Tanzania, and eastern Kenya. In South Africa its range has expanded southwards since 2014, becoming more widespread in the

Eastern Cape The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha. The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...

. The habitat consists of forests and woodland.

Subspecies

There are two subspecies: *''Acraea acara acara'' – eastern Kenya, Tanzania, DRC: Shaba, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Eswatini, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape *''Acraea acara melanophanes'' Le Cerf, 1927 – northern Namibia

Taxonomy

It is a member of the ''

'' species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre ''Acraea'
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Butterflies described in 1865 Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson {{Heliconiinae-stub