''Acraea camaena'', the large smoky acraea, is a
butterfly in the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in
Senegal,
Gambia
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,
Guinea-Bissau,
Guinea
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,
Sierra Leone, southern
Burkina Faso,
Liberia
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,
Ivory Coast
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,
Ghana,
Benin,
Nigeria,
Cameroon,
Bioko, the
Republic of the Congo
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and
Angola (the
Cabinda enclave).
Description
''A. camaena'' Drury (53 f). Forewing unicolorous smoke-black with black median spot but otherwise entirely without markings. Hindwing beyond the middle smoke-black with large free basal and discal dots, before the marginal band yellowish; marginal band incised at the veins, deep black with white dots. Sierra Leone to Nigeria and Fernando Po.
Biology
The habitat consists of dry forests, including open coastal forests.
Both sexes are attracted to flowers.
The larvae feed on ''
Premna hispida
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'' and ''
Smeathmannia pubescens''.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the ''
Acraea terpsicore''
species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014
[ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre ''Acraea']
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External links
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Methods and use
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Butterflies described in 1773
calida
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Dru Drury
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