Acraea conradti

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Acraea conradti
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. conradti
Binomial name
Acraea conradti
Oberthür, 1893 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) conradti
  • Acraea conradti ab. flavescens Blachier, 1912
  • Acraea conradti f. maculosa Le Doux, 1928
  • Acraea conradti f. usambarensis Le Doux, 1928
  • Acraea conradti f. vossleri Le Doux, 1928

Acraea conradti is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania (from the north-east to the Usambara Mountains) and Mozambique. [3]

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Description

A. conradti Oberth. (56 f) differs from all the preceding similarly coloured and marked species [members of the Acraea masamba species group.] in having the apical half of the forewing densely scaled without vitreous spot in 3 but with sharply defined white spots in 4 to 6 and especially in having the veins of the hindwing beneath broadly black at the distal margin and the streaks short and thickened, coniform. Nyassaland and German East Africa. [4]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea circeis species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]

References

  1. ↑ Oberthür, C. 1893. Lepidopteres d’Afrique. Etudes d’Entomologie 17: 17-36.
  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 2012-06-05.
  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.PD-icon.svg 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


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