Acraea caldarena

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Black tip acraea
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Acraea caldarena neluska
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. caldarena
Binomial name
Acraea caldarena
Hewitson, 1877 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Telchinia neroButler, 1883
  • Acraea (Acraea) caldarena
  • Acraea amphimallaWestwood, 1881
  • Acraea dircaeaWestwood, 1881
  • Acraea caldarena recaldanaSuffert, 1904
  • Acraea caldarena ab. mediofasciataNeustetter, 1916
  • Acraea leucopyga latiapicalisJoicey and Talbot, 1921
  • Acraea caldarena caldarena f. pallidaLe Doux, 1923
  • Acraea caldarena necessariaLe Doux, 1923
  • Acraea caldarena necessaria f. obscuroidesLe Doux, 1923
  • Acraea caldarena necessaria f. deceptaLe Doux, 1923
  • Acraea caldarena necessaria f. kohambullensisLe Doux, 1923
  • Acraea caldarena intermedia f. marginipunctataLe Doux, 1931
  • Acraea oncaea var. neluskaOberthür, 1878
  • Acraea ombriaWeymer, 1892

Acraea caldarena, the black tip acraea or black-tipped acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern and southeastern Africa.

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Description

A. caldarena Hew. (55 d). male. Ground-colour of both wings above light reddish ochre-yellow to light rose-red (= ab. recaldana Suff.; forewing with a sharply defined black apical spot 7 mm. in breadth, at the costal and distal margins very finely black; discal dots 4 and 5 are small and free and placed nearer to the proximal margin of the apical spot than to the apex of the cell; both wings a little darkened at the base; marginal band of the hindwing usually Avith light spots; under surface of the forewing lighter yellow, of the hindwing reddish; the discal dot in 2 is not placed proximally to the base of vein 3. The female has the wings above broadly darkened at the base, occasionally for the most part blackish. Natal to Damaraland and British East Africa. - female ab. nero Btlr. differs in having the ground-colour of both wings above suffused with dark grey, while the upperside of the hindwing has large, sharply defined, quadrate white spots in cellules 1c to 4 at the proximal side of the unspotted black marginal band. Victoria Nyanza. - f. neluska Oberth. (55f) [now subspecies] is only distinguished from the type-form by having the black apical spot of the forewing narrower, only 3 to 4 mm. in breadth. German East Africa. - The larva has a delicate rose-reddish to orange-yellow ground-colour and black spines and lives on Wormskjoldia longepedunculata. Pupa yellowish with black markings. [3]

Subspecies

Biology

Adults are on the wing year round, with a peak from August to April in southern Africa. [4]

The larvae feed on Passifloraceae species, including Tricliceras longipedunculatum and Adenia species.

Acraea caldarena caldarena in Seitz (1925) AcraeaSpecies2, Acraea caldarena.jpg
Acraea caldarena caldarena in Seitz (1925)

Taxonomy

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

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References

  1. ↑ Hewitson, W.C., 1877 Descriptions of four new species of Acraea from Lake Nyassa Ent. mon. Mag. 14 : 51-52
  2. ↑ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  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. ↑ Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN   978-1-86872-724-7.
  5. ↑ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf


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