Acraea aurivillii

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Acraea aurivillii
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Figures 9, 10 (male) and 11 (female) as Planema alicia
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. aurivillii
Binomial name
Acraea aurivillii
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) aurivillii
  • Planema aliciaGrose-Smith, 1900
  • Acraea aurivillii ab. latifasciataGrünberg, 1910
  • Acraea alciope ab. bakossuaStrand, 1912
  • Acraea alciope f. tellaEltringham, 1912
  • Planema smithiAurivillius, 1922
  • Acraea alciope bombensisStoneham, 1937
  • Acraea alciope ochrextensaStoneham, 1937
  • Acraea alciope f. flavifasciataStoneham, 1937
  • Acraea alciope f. viduaUngemach, 1932

Acraea aurivillii, the large alciope acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Ethiopia. [3] The habitat consists of forests.

Contents

The larvae feed on Laportea podocarpa , Urera flamigniana , Urera gravenreuthii , Urera thonneri , Pouzolzia denudata , Urera hypselodendron and Adenia species.

Subspecies

Similar species

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea jodutta species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [4]

Etymology

The name honours the Swedish entomologist Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius.

References

  1. ↑ Staudinger, O. 1896 Neue exotischer Tagfalter. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 9: 193-240.
  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 2012-06-04.
  4. ↑ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine


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