female -ab. inaureata Eltr. (57 d, as amphiprotea; 59 d).[Acraea jodutta f. inaureata Eltringham, 1912 ] Wings bright brown-yellow at the base of the cell, in l a and 1 b nearly to the distal margin and at the base of cellule 2; subapical band white; hindwing above bright brown-yellow, not darkened at the base and without dark marginal band, at the distal margin with distally thickened black longitudinal streaks. Nyassaland. - aethiops Rothsch. and Jord. is the Abyssinian race and differs in the male in having the hindmarginal spot of the forewing broader, so that at the hindmargin it is only 3 mm. from the base, while the cell has a nebulous spot and the black parts of the hindwing are narrower. In the female the subapical band is white or orange-yellow, the hindmarginal spot large and orange-yellow and the upperside of the hind wing almost entirely orange-yellow, the black rays in the posterior part indistinct. Differences between A. jodutta and A.esebria A. jodutta The subapical band and the anteriorly broad hindmarginal spot of the fore wing nearly touch at a point on vein 3. A smaller species with a wing expanse of at most 50 mm. A. esebria The dark marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing broad and not sharply defined, long black rays extending far beyond it proximally; the subapical band of the forewing more than 3.5 mm. in breadth. Biology The habitat consists of forests. The larvae feed on Fleurya, Urera, Pouzolzia and Boehmeria species. Subspecies Acraea jodutta jodutta (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, São Tomé and Príncipe, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, Zambia) Acraea jodutta aethiops Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (Ethiopia) Similar species Acraea disjuncta Taxonomy It is a member of the Acraea jodutta species group but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 References External links Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 e as carmentis and jodutta Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 59 a castanea Images representing Acraea jodutta at Bold Images representing Acraea jodutta Principe at Bold Images representing Acraea jodutta aethiops at Bold Acraea jodutta jodutta at Pteron Butterflies described in 1793 jodutta