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Acraea mahela
Acraea mahela is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.
From the article Acraea mahela on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
A. mahela Bdv. (53 c). Both wings thinly scaled, with light ochre-yellow ground-colour; fore wing diaphanous in the distal part as far as the discal dots and with distinct discal dots in 1 b to 6, a transverse streak at the end of the cell and a dot in the cell; hindwing with free basal and discal dots and small black spots at the distal margin on the extremities of the veins, both surfaces quite similarly coloured and marked. The sexes are quite similar. Madagascar.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 796022.