Acraea braesia

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Acraea braesia
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In Seitz (1925)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. braesia
Binomial name
Acraea braesia
Godman, 1885 Godman, F.D., 1885 List of the Lepidoptera collected by H. H. Johnston during his recent expedition to Kiliman-njaro Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1885 : 537-541 [1]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) braesia
  • Acraea leucosoma Staudinger, 1885
  • Acraea regalis Oberthür, 1893
  • Acraea mystica Neave, 1904
  • Acraea nohara ochracea Le Doux, 1931
  • Acraea bresia f. lucida Talbot, 1932
  • Acraea braesia f. leucofasciata Stoneham, 1943

Acraea braesia is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, north-eastern Uganda, eastern and northern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania. [2]

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Description

A. braesia Godm. Forewing long and narrow with the distal margin nearly straight, basal half of the upper surface reddish yellow-brown, apical half transparent grey with free yellow spots at the distal margin and black marginal band, which is but little widened at the apex. Hindwing above orange-yellow, often with rose-red tinge, at the base scarcely blackish and with black, unspotted marginal band, proximally somewhat undulate; the discal dots often only showing through from beneath; under surface of the hindwing more or less reddish, with distinct black dots and almost streak-shaped light yellow marginal spots. German and British East Africa; Abyssinia. - f. regalis Oberth. (55 e) has beyond discal dots 3 to 6 on the fore wing a well defined, almost transparent grey subapical band, but the forewing is otherwise densely scaled. German and British East Africa. [3]

Biology

The habitat consists of dry thornbush country.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014. [4]

References

  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
  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. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine