Acraea orestia

Acraea orestia, the Orestia glassy acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of disturbed forests and successional growth.

Acraea orestia
In Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. orestia
Binomial name
Acraea orestia
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) orestia
  • Acraea orestina Plötz, 1880
  • Acraea orestia f. transita Eltringham, 1912
  • Acraea orestia f. carpenteri Eltringham, 1913
  • Acraea orestia ab. moliwensis Strand, 1914
  • Acraea acutipennis Schultze, 1923
  • Acraea orestia f. clara Stoneham, 1943
  • Acraea orestia f. pseudohumilis Stoneham, 1943

The larvae feed on Laportea ovalifolia.

Subspecies
  • Acraea orestia orestia (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • Acraea orestia sambar Stoneham, 1943 (Tanzania: north-east to the Usambara Mountains)

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 2012-06-05.


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