Acraea ella

Acraea ella
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. ella
Binomial name
Acraea ella Eltringham, 1911 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Acraea) ella

Acraea ella, the Ella's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Angola and north-western Namibia. ^[3]

Description

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

A. ella Eltr. (60 b) is so similar to equatorialis that it is sufficient to mention the differences. Somewhat larger, expanse 50 to 60 mm.; forewing completely scaled without grey subapical band. Angola. ^[4]

Taxonomy

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

References

1. Eltringham, H. E., 1911 Preliminary descriptions of some new or little-known forms of the genus Acraea Novitates Zoologicae 18 : 149-153
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 2012-06-01.
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