Pseudacraea semire

Pseudacraea semire, the green false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.^[3]

Pseudacraea semire
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudacraea
Species:	P. semire
Binomial name
Pseudacraea semire (Cramer, 1779) [1] [2]
Synonyms
Papilio semire Cramer, 1779 Papilio hyppolite Drury, 1782

Description

Seitz Fauna Africana Taf 46

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

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semire group. Only a single species, which differs from all others in the very small cell of the hindwing. Ps. semire Cr. (46 a). Both wings black-brown above, in the basal part with large black dots and in the middle with green spots, which on the hindwing form a continuous median band, but on the fore wing are smaller and widely separated, in the cell of the forewing also two small green spots; the interneural folds before the distal margin with broad, black, light-bordered streaks and on the hindwing between these and the green median band with a row of brown-red spots. The under surface is lighter than the upper, especially at the base, and the green spots whitish. Sierra Leone to Angola. ^[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of lowland to sub-montane forest.

The larvae feed on Ouratea species, as well as Campylospermum laeve and Ochna pulchra.