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Acraea bonasia
The wings are thinly scaled to the extent that in many species they are semi-transparent. The scales tend to get rubbed off very easily so that insects more than 4 or 5 days old have a distinctly glassy or greasy appearance.
rainforest
I spotted this beside a stream near Mountain Paradise Lodge in eastern Ghana.
Spotted on Feb 29, 2004
Submitted on May 29, 2011
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