Acraea anemosa, the broad-bordered acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae which is native to southern Africa and coastal East Africa. Range It is found in Zululand, Eswatini, Transvaal, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, southern Zaire (Shaba), Namibia, Angola, Tanzania, the coast of eastern Kenya and southern Somalia. Description It is a variable species with a number of described colour morphs including f. anemosa, f. arctitincta, f. mosana, f. welwitschii, f. nivea, f. alboradiata and f. lobemba. The wingspan is 50–55 mm for males and 57–64 mm for females. A. anemosa Hew. Forewing above ochre-yellow to orange-yellow, at the base deep black to vein 2, the black colour sharply defined, at the distal margin with sharply defined black apical spot about 4 mm. in breadth and fine marginal line; a small median dot; discal dots 4 to 6 large and connected, 1b to 3 usually small or absent, the dot in 1b placed somewhat nearer to the distal margin than that in 2; hindwing above at the base and at the distal margin broadly black, and with a reddish yellow, unspotted median band. Forewing beneath coloured and marked as above; hindwing at the base and in the marginal band dotted with white; median band reddish white, proximally and distally with large red spots, which meet at the inner margin. Damaraland, Transvaal, Rhodesia; Portuguese, German and British East Africa. arcticincta Btlr. (54 c). Marginal band of the hindwing narrower, 4 to 6 mm. in breadth. Among the type-form. ab. interrupta Thur. The red-yellow ground-colour of the forewing encroaches as a narrow wedge-shaped spot into the black basal area of the cell, so as to form an elongate, quadrate black spot 2 mm. in breadth. Uganda. ab. mosana Suff. Forewing without median spot and without discal dots in 1b, 2 and 3. ab. dubiosa Suff. Hindwing above (not beneath) with small discal dots. German and British East Africa. ab. ufipana Strand only differs in having the median spot and discal dots 1b and 2 of the forewing large and strongly developed. German East Africa and Rhodesia. In ab. discoguttata Strand the forewing has "2 or 3 small dark round spots behind the costal spot in cellules 2 and 3". ab. urungensis Strand. Both wings above with but little black at the base; marginal band of the hindwing beneath with white spots, which are surrounded by the red post discal spots. German East