Acraea chambezi

Acraea chambezi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. chambezi
Binomial name
Acraea chambezi Neave, 1910 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea nohara chambeziNeave, 1910 Acraea (Acraea) chambezi

Acraea chambezi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Zambia and Malawi. ^[3]

Description

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

A. chambezi Neave is very similar to A. nohara (55 c), only differing in having the veins of the forewing above very finely black at the distal margin; the discal dot in 4 of the forewing is not placed in the same line as the dots in cellules 5 and 6 and the discal dot in 5 of the hindwing is absent; the discal dot in cellule 3 of the hindwing is placed near the base of the cellule; forewing usually with basal dot in cellule 1b. North-East Rhodesia. ^[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland (Miombo).

Taxonomy

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

References

1. Neave, S.A. 1910 Zoological collections from Northern Rhodesia and adjacent territories. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1910 : 2-86, pl. 1-3
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 2012-05-31.
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