Acraea grosvenori

Acraea grosvenori
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. grosvenori
Binomial name
Acraea grosvenori Eltringham, 1912 [1] [2]

Acraea grosvenori is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda. ^[3]

Description

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

A. grosvenori Eltr. (60 b) approximates to the preceding species [ parrhasia ] in size and shape. Forewing above entirely blackish and only in the cell and in place of the spots slightly transparent; hindwing above at the base to veins 2 and 7 black, then brick-red with very narrow dark marginal line and very fine streaks on the interneural folds, beneath uniform orange-yellow with a few small black dots at the base and long streaks at the distal margin on the folds, but the veins scarcely edged with black. Eastern Congo region. ^[4]

Taxonomy

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

References

1. Eltringham, H. 1912. A monograph of the African species of the genus Acraea Fab., with a supplement on those of the Oriental Region. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1912: 1-374.
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. 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