belongs to a female which differs in all these characters. P. macarioides has the hindwing above dirty yellow-brown to beyond the middle without a distinct boundary-line between the somewhat darker basal part and the median band. The transverse band of the fore wing in the male is somewhat lighter and narrower than in the male of macaria.- macarioides Auriv. ( = rabuma Suff.) (57 f, 58 e and 58 f, as umbra female ) is larger and has in the male the basal part of the forewing at least in the cell blackish; the dark distal part of the hindwing above is broader and more distinctly defined. Cameroons Subspecies B. u. umbra (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, western Cameroon) B. u. carpenteri (Le Doux, 1937) (Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea) B. u. hemileuca (Jordan, 1914) (eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya: west to the Kakamega Forest) B. u. macarioides (Aurivillius, 1893) (Cameroon, Gabon, western Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, north-western Tanzania, Zambia) Biology The habitat consists of forests. The larvae feed on Adenia cisampelloides. Taxonomy See Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 References External links Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 f ssp. macarioides Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 58 e ssp. macarioides f umbra Images representing Acraea umbra at Bold Images representing Acraea umbra macarioides at Bold Butterflies described in 1782 Acraeini