Acraea lofua

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Acraea lofua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. lofua
Binomial name
Acraea lofua
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) lofua

Acraea lofua is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-eastern Zambia. [3]

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Description

A. lofua Eltr. (60 e). male. Wings above reddish ochre-yellow, at the base narrowly scaled with black and with the usual black dots; fore wing with black marginal band, which is gradually widened at the apex into a spot 3 mm. in breadth, beneath lighter but otherwise almost as above; hind wing above with very broad unspotted, deep black marginal band, which is broader in the middle, beneath with light yellow ground-colour and white marginal spots. The female differs in having the forewing light ochre-yellowish without black discal dots and the hindwing light reddish grey-yellow; the basal and discal dots are very small and the marginal band somewhat narrower than in the male and with grey marginal spots above also. Rhodesia, on the Lofu River. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of deciduous woodland.

Taxonomy

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

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References

  1. Eltringham, H. 1911b. 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 2012-05-31.
  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.svg 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