Acraea pudorella

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Acraea pudorella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. pudorella
Binomial name
Acraea pudorella
Synonyms
  • Acraea caldarena var. pudorellaAurivillius, 1899
  • Acraea (Acraea) pudorella
  • Acraea detectaNeave, 1910
  • Acraea pudorella reductaWichgraf, 1918
  • Acraea pudorella f. heringiLe Doux, 1923

Acraea pudorella is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, the coast of Kenya and Malawi. [3]

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Description

A. pudorella Auriv. (55 d) is also very nearly allied to Acraea caldarena , of which I formerly regarded it as only a seasonal form. Eltringham has, however, pointed out that discal dot 2 on the hindwing is placed nearer to the base of cellule 2 in pudorella than in caldarena and that the male genitalia are differently formed. The type-form of pudorella further differs in having the forewing thinly scaled and entirely without the black apical spot. German and British East Africa; Abyssinia. -detecta Neave has a black apical spot 6 to 7 mm. in breadth on the upperside of the forewing and is consequently even more like caldarena. Rhodesia; Nyassaland and German East Africa. [4]

Taxonomy

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


References

  1. ↑ Aurivillius, P.O.C., 1898 Rhopalocera Aethiopica. Die tagfalter des Aethiopischen Faunegebietes K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl. 31 (5) : 1-561, pl. 1-6
  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.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 Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine


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