Description
''A. masamba'' Ward (56 g) closely approximates to the two preceding species ''Acraea_igola''_,_''Acraea_strattipocles.html" ;"title="Acraea_igola.html" ;"title="''Acraea igola">''Acraea igola'' , ''Acraea strattipocles">Acraea_igola.html" ;"title="''Acraea igola">''Acraea igola'' , ''Acraea strattipocles'' ], but the red-yellow scaling of the forewing is less extended, leaving the apex of the cell free and covering at most the base of cellule 2; it is much paler in the female than in the male. The hindwing as in ''strattipocles'' with large discal dots; the distal black dot in the cell is placed more basally before the origin of vein 2; in the female the ground-colour of the hindwing is often whitish. Madagascar, f. ''silia'' Mab. (56 g) ow_species_''_Taxonomy
It_is_a_member_of_the_''Acraea_masamba''_Acraea_(butterfly)#Systematics_and_taxonomy.html" "title="Acraea_silia''.html" ;"title="Acraea_silia.html" ;"title="ow species ''Acraea silia">ow species ''Acraea silia''">Acraea_silia.html" ;"title="ow species ''Acraea silia">ow species ''Acraea silia''only differs in having the reddish colour of the upper surface more yellowish and behind the discal spots of the hind wing more or less whitish; the sexes almost alike. Madagascar, f. ''boseae'' Saalm. (56 g) is smaller, with the ground-colour of the upper surface light yellow. Madagascar.Taxonomy
It is a member of the ''Acraea masamba'' Acraea (butterfly)#Systematics and taxonomy">species group In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...References
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