It is found in Africa, from Nigeria and Angola to Uganda, western Tanzania and Zambia.

in breadth, proximally dentate on the veins, above unicolorous, beneath spotted with light yellow, and the discal dots are approximated to the base; beneath the ground-colour is light yellowish to whitish, with large red or orange-yellow spots between the black dots and at the marginal band.

[ now species Acraea abdera ](54 f male) differs in the absence of the light subapical band of the forewing and in having both wings above more broadly black at the base.

[now subspecies of Acraea abdera] the forewing of the male has a blackish ground-colour above and has only in the distal half of cellules 1 a and 1 b a large red-yellow spot; the hindwing coloured as in the type-form.

Wings above with red-yellow ground-colour as in the male and the forewing with white subapical band.