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Scientific Name : Acraea terpsicore
Family : Acraeidae
Order : Lepidoptera
Class : Insecta
Phylum : Arthropoda
Habitat : Vegetations
Description : Upperside orange with black veins and black spots. Forewing has a thin dark area close to the margin. Hindwing has a broader dark area close to the posterior margin with white spots. Underside is similar. Forewing on the underside has a broad dark margin with big white spots. Hindwing is mostly orange with a thin dark margin that diffuses into a white-orange area. Body is black with white spots. Female is of a paler orange.
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description written by:Hajbun Tasnim Preety,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, Malayan Naturalist(Magazine of the Malaysian Nature Society) Vol 49 no 3 :1996photo credit:Ketan Aloni (www.inaturalist.org/people/Ketan Aloni ),photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.
description written by:Hajbun Tasnim Preety,Department of Zoology,University of Dhaka;information source:IUCN Red List Bangladesh-2015, Malayan Naturalist(Magazine of the Malaysian Nature Society) Vol 49 no 3 :1996photo credit:Ketan Aloni (www.inaturalist.org/people/Ketan Aloni ),photo copyright: iNaturalist. more information please contact with us.