Acraea kappa

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Acraea kappa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. kappa
Binomial name
Acraea kappa
Pierre, 1979 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) kappa

Acraea kappa is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania, from the western part of the country to the Kigoma-Mpanda district. [3]

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Taxonomy

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

References

  1. ↑ Pierre, J. 1979 Le complexe ultraspecifique d’Acraea admatha Hewitson, reconnaissance de 6 especes-jumelles, description de nouveaux taxons (Lepidoptera, Acraeidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N.S.) 15 (4): 719-737.
  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 2012-05-31.
  4. ↑ 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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