''Acraea cinerea'', the grey acraea, 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

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which is native to

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Range

It is found in the

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and

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Description

''A. cinerea'' Neave. Fore wing diaphanous without a trace of definite spots, at the costal margin and at the apex more or less dusted with grey. Hindwing above uniform black, beneath at the base with a large dark red area, which extends to the apex of the cell and the inner margin; basal dots feebly developed; fore wing beneath dark red at the base of the costal margin.

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: Tiriki Hills (5000 ft.). * ''alberta'' Eltr. (60 e) differs in the hindwing having above a large, elongate carmine-red spot, which covers the base of cellules 7-2, the middle of cellule 1c and the apex of the cell. To the west of Lake Albert &

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Subspecies

*''Acraea cinerea cinerea'' — Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to northern Kivu, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, western Tanzania, Zambia *''Acraea cinerea luluae'' Berger, 1981 — Democratic Republic of the Congo: south to Lualaba

Taxonomy

It is a member of the '' Acraea masamba''

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– but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre ''Acraea'
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Butterflies described in 1904 cinerea {{Heliconiinae-stub