Acraea brainei

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Acraea brainei
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. brainei
Binomial name
Acraea brainei
Henning, 1986 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) brainei

Acraea brainei, the Braine's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-western Namibia. [3]

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Biology

The habitat consists of granite outcrops on hills and ridges.

Both sexes feed from the flowers of Turnera oculata . They are on wing from February to April.

The larvae also feed on Turnera oculata .

Taxonomy

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

References

  1. ↑ Henning, G.A. 1986. A new species of Acraea F. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from South West Africa (Namibia) with revisional notes on the Acraea horta (L.) species group. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 49 (1): 29-37.
  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 2012-05-30.
  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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