Acraea masamba | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. masamba |
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Acraea masamba | |
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Acraea masamba is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. [3] The habitat consists of forests.
A. masamba Ward (56 g) closely approximates to the two preceding species [ Acraea igola , Acraea strattipocles ], but the red-yellow scaling of the forewing is less extended, leaving the apex of the cell free and covering at most the base of cellule 2; it is much paler in the female than in the male.The hindwing as in strattipocles with large discal dots; the distal black dot in the cell is placed more basally before the origin of vein 2; in the female the ground-colour of the hindwing is often whitish. Madagascar, f. silia Mab. (56 g) [ now species Acraea silia ] only differs in having the reddish colour of the upper surface more yellowish and behind the discal spots of the hind wing more or less whitish; the sexes almost alike. Madagascar, f. boseae Saalm. (56 g) is smaller, with the ground-colour of the upper surface light yellow. Madagascar. [4]
It is a member of the Acraea masamba species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
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