Acraea horta - Garden Acraea

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Acraea horta

Photo(s): Bart Wursten, National Botanic Garden, Pretoria, South Africa.

Species details:

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Distribution: Eswatini, Lesotho and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, Gauteng, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, South Africa. Only known from Zimbabwe as an Zimbabwe occasional migrant.
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AchariaceaeKiggelaria africana (Larval foodplant)
Literature: Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 73.
Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 80.
Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Nymphalidae subfamily Heliconinae Tribe Acraeini, p. 23, Online Encyclopaedia.

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Acraea horta .
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/insect-display.php?insect_species_id=403500, retrieved 7 October 2024

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