Acraea amicitiae

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Acraea amicitiae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. amicitiae
Binomial name
Acraea amicitiae
Heron, 1909 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) amicitiae
  • Acraea polychromaRebel, 1911
  • Acrea amicitiae polychroma f. flavinaJackson, 1956
  • Acraea amicitiae f. luteaBerger, 1981
  • Acraea amicitiae f. albaBerger, 1981
  • Acraea amicitiae f. intermediaBerger, 1981

Acraea amicitiae is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Afrotropical realm (Zaire and Uganda).

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Acraea amicitiae

Description

A. amicitiae Heron (= polychroma Rebel ) (59 f). Forewing above black in the basal half with 5 large, angular brown-red spots, two in 1 b, two in the cell and one in the middle of cellule 2, and in the apical half with three small diaphanous spots in 4 to 6. Hindwing above brown-red, in the basal part of cellules 1 a to 2 as far as vein 3 black and with free black discal dots in (4) 5 to 7; before the distal margin with a thick black submarginal line, which is connected with the distal margin by the black veins; on the under surface the basal part as far as the discal dots and the marginal band are dull grey-brown and the interspace forms an anteriorly widened light grey-yellow median band; basal and discal dots all free. Ruwenzori and in the mountainous country at the north-west end of Lake Tanganyika. [3]

Biology

The habitat consists of montane forests. [4] Adult males mud puddle.

Taxonomy

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


References

  1. Heron, F.A. 1909. Zoological results of the Ruwenzori Expedition 1905-1906. Ruwenzori Expedition Reports 12. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 19: 141-178.
  2. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  5. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine