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Pseudacraea
Sign in to savePseudacraea is an Afrotropical butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae. Their placement in the tribe Limenitidini remains to be verified.
Species
False Chief
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyNymphalidae
Observations800
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 33
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- YPM, SAM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH, USNM, MZLU
- Recorded in
- Madagascar, Central African Republic, Gabon, Angola, Uganda, Cameroon, Sierra Leone
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Pseudacraea is an Afrotropical butterfly genus in the subfamily Limenitidinae. Their placement in the tribe Limenitidini remains to be verified.
Some of these species are mimics of Acraeinae and the present genus is thus known as false acraeas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudacraea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.