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Pseudacraea warburgi
In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Pseudacraea
Species:	P. warburgi
Binomial name
Pseudacraea warburgi Aurivillius, 1892

Pseudacraea warburgi, the incipient false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (from the western part of the country to the Bwamba Valley).

Description

Very similar to Pseudacraea hostilia q.v. for differences.

Biology

The habitat consists of forest.

It is a mimic of an Acraea species.

The larvae feed on Strephanema, Manilkara and Combretum species.

References

1. Aurivillius, C. 1892. Verzeichniss, Einer von Herrn Fritz Theorin aus Gabun und dem Gebeite des Camerunflusses Heimgebrachten Schmetterlings-Sammlung. Entomologisk Tidskrift 13: 181-200.
2. "Pseudacraea Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini

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