A new species of Acraea Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Acraeinae) from Ghana, West Africa

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Abstract Acraea kraka is a distinctive species, with reduced scales on both forewings and hindwings, from the equatorial forest east of the Dahomey Gap. A similar, allopatric species, A.kibi sp.n., is described from an isolated upland forest within the equatorial forest west of the Dahomey Gap.

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