Acraea ranavalona

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Acraea ranavalona
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Female
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Male
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. ranavalona
Binomial name
Acraea ranavalona
Boisduval, 1833 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) ranavalona
  • Acraea maransetraWard, 1872
  • Acraea manandazaWard, 1872
Acraea ranavalona butterflies mating, Anjajavy Forest, Madagascar Acraea butterfly (Acraea ranavalona) mating.jpg
Acraea ranavalona butterflies mating, Anjajavy Forest, Madagascar

Acraea ranavalona is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar and the Comoros. [3]

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Description

A. ranavalona Bdv. (53 c, d). Forewing at the base as far as vein 2 bright red (male) or almost completely hyaline (female); hindwing with grey, often semitransparent, red-spotted marginal band, the red marginal spots proximally bounded by sharply defined black submarginal dots; basal and discal dots distinct; ground-colour beneath white, above in the male bright red, in the female white or whitish. Madagascar and Comoros. Female aberratio form manandaza Ward (53 d). Ground-colour of the hindwing more or less reddish. Madagascar. Aberratio form maransetra Ward. The discal dots of the hindwing united into a transverse band. Madagascar. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of forests. The colours in life may be much brighter than those shown in early collections and in museums.

Taxonomy

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

References

  1. Boisduval, J.B.A. 1833. Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris 2: 149-270.
  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 Archived 2014-11-12 at the Wayback Machine