Acraea burni

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Acraea burni
Pale-yellow Acraea (Acraea burni %3F) male ... (45911070644).jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. burni
Binomial name
Acraea burni
Butler, 1896 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) burni
  • Acraea obeira burni
  • Acraea obeira meyerivan Son, 1963
  • Acraea obeira meyeranaAckery, 1995

Acraea burni, the pale-yellow acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. [3]

Contents

The larvae feed on Laportea peduncularis , Pouzolzia mixta and Obetia tenax .

Taxonomy

Acraea burni is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Acraea obeira . See that species for diagnosis. It is a member of the Acraea pentapolis species group. But see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Butler, A.G. 1896 A new butterfly of the genus Acraea from Tugela, S. Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 18: 467.
  2. ↑ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ↑ Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN   978-1-86872-724-7.
  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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