Acraea dammii

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Acraea dammii
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Male
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Female
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. dammii
Binomial name
Acraea dammii
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) dammii
  • Acraea percussaKeferstein, 1870
  • Acraea masonalaWard, 1872
  • Acraea villetteiOberthür, 1925

Acraea dammii is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar and the Comoros. [3]

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Description

A. dammii Vollenh. (53 b). Forewing to the apex of the cell and hindwing not or scarcely beyond the black spots scaled with red (male) or white (female); the hyaline marginal band of the hindwing is consequently broad, reaching the black spot in 3; the large black spot in 7 is placed much nearer to the base than the one in 6. Madagascar. - cuva Smith (57 a) [ now species Acraea cuva ] differs in having the red (male) or dirty yellow (female) scaling on both wings extended much further distad; hence the hyaline marginal band of the hindwing is only about 2 mm. in breadth; hindwing usually with 6 to 8 discal dots, occasionally only with 5, ab. nidama Suff. [ = Acraea cuva ] German and British East Africa. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Taxonomy

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

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References

  1. ↑ van Vollenhoven, C. Snellen 1869. Description des especes nouvelles de Coleopteres, Orthopteres, Lepidopteres et Hemipteres mentionees dans la liste precedente. In: Pollen, F.P.L. & Van Dam, D.C. Reserches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses dependances (5): 7-14.
  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. ↑ 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.svgThis 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


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