Acraea marnois

Acraea marnois
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. marnois
Binomial name
Acraea marnois Rogenhofer, 1890 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Acraea) marnois Telchinia marnois

Acraea marnois is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan. ^[3]

Description

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

A. marnois Rog., which I formerly incorrectly regarded as a form of oncaea , is, as Eltringham has discovered, very nearly allied to Acraea caecilia and probably only a form of it. Wings above sand-yellow; at the base narrowly blackish; the black colour does not reach vein 2; at the apex and distal margin narrowly darkened, but much more broadly than in caecilia pudora; basal and discal dots on both wings as in caecilia. Soudan. ^[4]

Taxonomy

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

References

1. Rogenhofer, A.F., 1889 Afrikanische Schmetterling des k. k. naturhist. Hofmuseums Ann. Mus. Wien. 4 : 547-554, pl. 23
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