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Mimacraea krausei

species of butterfly

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ28152176 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mimacraea krausei, the Krause's acraea mimic, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on lichens and moss growing on tree trunks. They are dark sepia brown and reach a length of about 26 mm.

Subspecies

M. k. krausei (Congo, Uganda: Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Haut-Uele, Equateur, Kinshasa, Sankuru and Lualaba)

M. k. camerunica Libert, 2000 (Cameroon)

M. k. karschioides Carpenter & Jackson, 1950 (southern Sudan)

M. k.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mimacraea krausei” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.