''Acraea sambavae'' 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 on
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
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Description
''A. sambavae'' Ward is very similar to the last two species
A. strattipocles'' , ''Acraea masamba"> A. masamba'' ">Acraea strattipocles">A. strattipocles'' , ''Acraea masamba"> A. masamba'' , but has a more brownish red colour on the upper surface and differs especially in having the marginal band of the hindwing replaced by large black spots at the extremities of the veins; these spots touch one another at the distal margin, but are otherwise quite free; the inner margin of the hindwing broadly whitish yellow. Madagascar.
Biology
The habitat consists of forests.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the ''Acraea masamba'' Acraea (butterfly)#Systematics and taxonomy, species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014
[ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre ''Acraea']
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''Acraea sambavae''
at Pteron
Butterflies described in 1873
sambavae
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Christopher Ward (entomologist)
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