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Acraea satis
Species of butterfly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Acraea satis, the east coast acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya.
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Description
A. satis Ward (54 a). Wings above in the male light red-yellow or brown-yellow, in the female white and very thinly scaled. Forewing at the costal margin narrowly black, at the distal margin broadly hyaline with some black scales; the base of cellules 4 to 6 is broadly yellow (male) or white and distally bounded by the (sometimes indistinct) discal dots of these cellules; the median spot at the end of the cell is very thick and forms with the streak-like discal dots of cellules 3 to 1 b a curved transverse band; beyond the middle of the cell a black transverse band, which is often joined to the median spot. Hindwing in cellules 1 b to 7 with strigiform, thick discal dots, which form with the outer basal dots of cellules 1 a to 1 c and the median spots an irregular transverse band enclosing light spots in cellules 1 a to 2 and 4 to 6; the black marginal band broad with large yellowish or white marginal spots. Rhodesia; Zululand; German and British East Africa. This very distinct species recalls A. rabbaiae and zonata in the markings and is grouped together with them by Eltringham [4] The wingspan is 55–65 mm for males and 55–70 mm for females.
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Biology
Adults are on wing from September to April, with peaks in February and early March in southern Africa. There are several generations per year.[5]
The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron and Urera trinervis in eastern Africa.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea satis species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [6]
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