Acraea actinotina

Puzzling acraea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. actinotina
Binomial name
Acraea actinotina (Lathy, 1903) [1] [2]
Synonyms
Telipna actinotinaLathy, 1903 Acraea (Actinote) actinotina

Acraea actinotina, the puzzling acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and eastern Nigeria. ^[3] The describer, Percy Ireland Lathy, mistakenly placed this species in Telipna Lycaenidae - the wrong family. Hence the English name puzzling acraea.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Forewing on both surfaces in the basal part orange-yellow as far as the costal margin and vein 4, in the apical part above black with two elongate yellow subapical spots in 5 and 6, beneath black-grey with indistinct light subapical spots in 3-6 and broad black bordering to the yellow basal part. Hindwing brown-grey beneath with some small black basal dots. ^[4]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea jodutta species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[5]

References

1. Lathy, P.I. 1903. An account of a collection of Rhopalocera made on the Anambara Creek in Nigeria, West Africa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1903: 183-206.
2. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
4. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
5. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine