Acraea cuva

Acraea cuva
Figure 5
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. cuva
Binomial name
Acraea cuva Grose-Smith, 1889 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Acraea) cuva Acraea dammi nidamaSuffert, 1904

Acraea cuva, the chic acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania and in Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe. ^[3]

Description

Very similar to Acraea dammii qv. for diagnosis

Biology

The habitat probably consists of forests.

Both sexes feed from the flowers of Lantana species.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea terpsicore species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[4]

References

1. Grose-Smith, H. 1889. Descriptions of twenty-four new species of butterflies captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3: 121-137.
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 2012-05-30.
4. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 a
• Images representing Acraea cuva at Bold