Acraea ntebiae

Acraea ntebiae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. ntebiae
Binomial name
Acraea ntebiae Sharpe, 1897 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Actinote) ntebiae Acraea melanostrictaSharpe, 1904 Acraea mairesseiAurivillius, 1904 Acraea mairessei ab. dewitziAurivillius, 1904

Acraea ntebiae is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia. ^[3]

Description

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

A. mairessei Auriv. Wings above fully scaled, black with 6 semitransparent white spots on the forewing (in 1 b, 2, 4-6 and in the apex of the cell) and a sulphur-yellow median band on the hindwing, formed as in melanoxantha Beneath the ground-colour of the hindwing and 8 or 9 elongate marginal spots on the forewing are bright sulphur-yellow; the veins of both wings very broadly edged with black at the distal margin; the streaks on the interneural folds are very short and thick, more like spots, and do not nearly reach the distal margin; cell of the hindwing only with one black dot. Congo and Uganda. - f. dewitzi Auriv. only differs in having the median band on the upperside of the hindwing red-yellow and the white spots in 1 b and the cell of the fore wing smaller. Congo region: Kassai. ^[4]

Subspecies

• Acraea ntebiae ntebiae (central and northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
• Acraea ntebiae dewitziCarcasson, 1981 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: south-east to Shaba, Zambia)
• Acraea ntebiae kigomaKielland, 1978 (Tanzania: Mount Mahale)

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Adults feed from flowers on trees and shrubs.

Taxonomy

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

References

1. Sharpe, E.M. 1897. Descriptions of some new species of Acraeidae collected by Mr. F.J. Jackson at Ntebi [Entebbe], Uganda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 19: 581-582.
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

External links

• Images representing Acraea ntebiae at Bold.