Acraea cuva

Acraea cuva, the chic acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania and in Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat probably consists of forests.

Acraea cuva
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. cuva
Binomial name
Acraea cuva
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) cuva
  • Acraea dammi nidama Suffert, 1904

Both sexes feed from the flowers of Lantana species.

References

  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-30.


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