Acraea encedon, the common acraea, white-barred acraea or encedon acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia. It is one of the species
Common acraea 2
Male and female imagos in Adalbert Seitz (1925)
Mounted specimen from Eritrea
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country in the Indian Ocean that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern c
Malagasy ancestry reflects a blend of Southeast Asian, Oceanian, and Bantu (Southeast African) roots.
King Andrianampoinimerina (1787–1810)
French poster about the Franco-Hova War
National monument in Moramanga commemorating the beginning of the Malagasy Uprising on 29 March 1947. Between 11,000 and 90,000 Malagasy died during the uprising, which lasted nearly two years.