Acraea buettneri

Acraea buettneri
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. buettneri
Binomial name
Acraea buettneri Rogenhofer, 1890 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Acraea) buettneri Acraea felinaTrimen, 1891 Acraea buettneri parapetraeaSchouteden, 1919 Acraea buettneri f. contractaLe Doux, 1923 Acraea buettneri f. nigroapicalisOverlaet, 1955

Acraea buettneri, the Buettner's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia (the north-western part of the country and the Copperbelt). ^[3]

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

A. buettneri Rog. (54 f). Wings above orange-yellow with large angular black dots, which are arranged as in petraea ; distal margin and apex of the forewing narrowly black and the veins before the distal margin black-edged; wings beneath more reddish yellow and the hindwing often with red spots at the base; marginal band narrow, 1 to 1.5 mm. in breadth, above unspotted, beneath with large, transversely placed white marginal spots; the discal dot in 3 large and nearer to the distal margin than those in 2 and 4. Damaraland, Rhodesia and southern Congo. ^[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of woodland.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014. ^[5]

References

1. Rogenhofer, A. F. Afrikanische Schmetterling des k. k. naturhist. Hofmuseums Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums.. 4 : 547-554, pl. 23
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 2012-06-01.
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. 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

External links

• Images representing Acraea buettneri at Bold