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Acraea natalica pseudegina

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Acraea natalica pseudegina Westwood
Acraea pseudegina Westwood, 1852 [1846-1852]: 531 (Sierra Leone), to replace Papilio egina: Stoll, 1790 (not Cramer, 1775).
This subspecies is Occidental African; a second subspecies is found in the Equatorial area, represented in Carnegie Museum by long series from Cameroons, and the nominate subspecies is East African. I found this to be especially partial to flowering trees in areas disturbed by agriculture.
Liberia: Harbel, 3 5,1 9 , III, 2 5,2 9 , IV, 2 5,1 9 , V, 1 5 , VI, 1 5 , VII, 2 5,1 2 , XII (including a pair in copula); Kpain, 1 5,1 9 , V; Ganta, 2 5 , II, 1 9 , V, 4 5,1 9 , VI, 1 5 , VII, 1 5,1 9 , VIII, 1 9 , X; St. Paul River at Zorzor Road, 1 5 , IV; Zorzor, 1 5, V (Fox); eastern Liberia, II, III (Condamin, 1951); Buttikofer (1890); Sharpe (1906), including her "natalica".
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Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA