''Acraea chambezi'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern

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and

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Description

''A. chambezi'' Neave is very similar to '' A. nohara'' (55 c), only differing in having the veins of the forewing above very finely black at the distal margin; the discal dot in 4 of the forewing is not placed in the same line as the dots in cellules 5 and 6 and the discal dot in 5 of the hindwing is absent; the discal dot in cellule 3 of the hindwing is placed near the base of the cellule; forewing usually with basal dot in cellule 1b. North-East Rhodesia.

Biology

The habitat consists of '' Brachystegia'' woodland ( Miombo).

Taxonomy

It is a member of the ''

Acraea cepheus ''Acraea cepheus'', the Cepheus acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Africa, from Nigeria and Angola to Uganda, western Tanzania and Zambia. Description ''A. cepheus'' L. (54 f) differs from all the African Acraeids ...

'' species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre ''Acraea'
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References

Butterflies described in 1910 chambezi {{Heliconiinae-stub