Sharpe. In the borderlands between the West and East African subregions there usually occur also in this species transitions to the East African race. These are distinguished by having the red-yellow colour of the forewing present not only in 1 a and 1 b, but also as fine longitudinal streaks first in 2 and then also in the other cellules; the under surface of the hindwing is for the most part suffused with orange-yellow; the discal dots are sometimes as large as in egina, sometimes much smaller, particularly on the hindwing, ab. contraria Grunb. (= kiwuensis Grunb.). Rhodesia; Nyassaland and on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza. areca Mab. (54 e) is the East African race and following the rule which obtains in almost all African Acraeids is characterized by having the red-yellow colour of the forewing more extended, more or less completely covering the cell and the base of cellules 2 to 6; the under surface of the hindwing is for the most part orange-yellow. In the female the ground-colour is more yellowish than in the type-form. South-East Rhodesia, Nyassaland, German and British East Africa. Subspecies Acraea egina egina — Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Ethiopia, western Kenya, northern Zambia Acraea egina areca Mabille, 1889 — Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, South Africa: Limpopo Province Acraea egina harrisoni Sharpe, 1904 — coast of Kenya Acraea egina pembanus Kielland, 1990 — Pemba Taxonomy It is a member of the Acraea egina species group – but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 References External links Images representing Acraea egina at Bold Images representing Acraea egina bellehui at Bold Acraea egina egina at Pteron Learn About Butterflies Mimicry in butterflies Butterflies described in 1775 egina Taxa named by Pieter Cramer