Species name	Acraea bonasia (Fabricius, 1775) Bonasia acraea.
Taxonomy	Papilio bonasia Fabricius, 1775.  Systema Entomologiae 464 (832 pp.). Flensburgi & Lipsiae. Type locality: Sierra Leone: “Sierra Leon”.  Holotype in the Banks collection, London (Larsen, 2005a).
Subspecies
Geographical Range	Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Ethiopia. .
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Biology	Host plant: Clappertonia ficifolia (Tiliaceae) [Owen, 1971 (Sierra Leone); Pierre & Vuattoux, 1978 (Ivory Coast)]. Triumfetta macrophilla Schum (Tiliaceae) [Van Someren, 1974: 323; Jiggins et al., 2003: 70]. Triumfetta ruwenzorensis Sprague (Tiliaceae) [Van Someren, 1974: 323]. Triumfetta species (Tiliaceae) [Bernaud, 1995 (Cameroon)]. Hibiscus species (Malvaceae) [Bernaud, 1995 (Cameroon)]. Triumfetta brachyceras (Tiliaceae) [Heath et al., 2002: 44].
Nigeria♀
Nigeria♀
References	Acraea, Site of Markku Savela Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraein