Acraea endoscota

Acraea endoscota, the Le Doux's glassy acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, northern Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Mongala, Kivu, Kasai, Sankuru), Uganda, Rwanda, south-western Ethiopia, western Kenya and western Tanzania.^[3]

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] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Acraea) endoscota Acraea endoscota f. albanis Pierre, 1979

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Adults are attracted to flowers.

The larvae feed on Rinorea breviracemosa.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea terpsicore species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[4]