Acraea aubyni

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Acraea aubyni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. aubyni
Binomial name
Acraea aubyni
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) aubyni

Acraea aubyni, the Aubyn Rogers' acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found along the coast of Kenya and possibly north-eastern Tanzania. [3]

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Description

A. aubyni Eltr. (60a). Basal part of the forewing above reddish; the red colour covers the cell to its apex, cellules 1 a to 2 almost to the distal margin and the base of cellule 3; the apical part is blackish with three short whitish transparent spots in 4 to 6. Hindwing above light red nearly to the base with free black dots and a sharply defined black marginal band 2 mm. in breadth; beneath light ochre-yellowish, at the distal margin with short, fine streaks on the folds, which do not quite reach the margin. British East Africa. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of coastal forests.

Taxonomy

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

References

  1. Eltringham, H. 1912. A monograph of the African species of the genus Acraea Fab., with a supplement on those of the Oriental Region. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1912: 1-374.
  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 2012-06-05.
  4. 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 .
  5. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine