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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. disjuncta
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Binomial name | |
Acraea disjuncta | |
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Acraea disjuncta is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Uganda.[3]
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A. disjuncta Sm. (= nandensis E. Sharpe) (60 c) resembles a small male jodutta; both wings blackish above with light yellow markings; the hindmarginal spot of the forewing is broad, without, however, reaching the base of cellules 1 a and 1 b; the subapical band is about 4 mm. in breadth and has a small spot in 3, which touches the hindmarginal spot; the median band on the upperside of the hindwing is about 8 mm. in breadth and the dark, sharply defined marginal band consequently at most 3 mm. Nandi, Ruwenzori; Lake Kiwi. [4]
The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron.
It is a member of the Acraea jodutta species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]