Acraea endoscota

Acraea endoscota
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species: A. endoscota
Binomial name
Acraea endoscota
Le Doux, 1928[1]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) endoscota
  • Acraea endoscota f. albanis Pierre, 1979

Acraea endoscota, Le Doux’s Glassy Acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, northern Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Mongala, Kivu, Kasai, Sankuru), Uganda, Rwanda, south-western Ethiopia, western Kenya and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Rinorea breviracemosa.

References

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