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Acraeas
Acraea
Acraea is a genus of brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae) of the subfamily Heliconiinae. It seems to be highly paraphyletic and has long been used as a "wastebin taxon" to unite about 220 species of anatomically conservative Acraeini. Some phylogenetic studies show that the genus Acraea is monophyletic if Bematistes and Neotropical Actinote are included (see Pierre & Bernaud, 2009). Most species assembled here are restricted to the Afrotropic ecozone, but some are found in India, Southeast...
32 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Tawny Coster
speciesAcraea terpsicore
Garden Acraea
speciesAcraea horta
Glasswing
speciesAcraea andromacha
Wandering Donkey Acraea
speciesAcraea neobule
Acraea ranavalona
speciesAcraea ranavalona
Acraea insignis
speciesAcraea insignis
Common Glassy Acraea
speciesAcraea quirina
Acraea dammii
speciesAcraea dammii
Acraea mahela
speciesAcraea mahela
Acraea boopis
speciesAcraea boopis
Acraea leucographa
speciesAcraea leucographa
Acraea endoscota
speciesAcraea endoscota
Acraea eltringhami
speciesAcraea eltringhami
Acraea igati
speciesAcraea igati
Acraea meyeri
speciesAcraea meyeri
Chic Acraea
speciesAcraea cuva
Acraea satis
speciesAcraea satis
Acraea machequena
speciesAcraea machequena
Hewitson’s Glassy Acraea
speciesAcraea admatha
Acraea camaena
speciesAcraea camaena
Acraea hova
speciesAcraea hova
Acraea matuapa
speciesAcraea matuapa
Acraea hamata
speciesAcraea hamata
Acraea moluccana
speciesAcraea moluccana
Acraea brainei
speciesAcraea brainei
Acraea kappa
speciesAcraea kappa
Acraea kia
speciesAcraea kia
Acraea punctimarginea
speciesAcraea punctimarginea
Acraea turlini
speciesAcraea turlini
Acraea kinduana
speciesAcraea kinduana
Acraea eugenia
speciesAcraea eugenia
Acraea translucida
speciesAcraea translucida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68481.