Acraea rohlfsi

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Acraea rohlfsi
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Male imago illustrated in Seitz (1900)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. rohlfsi
Binomial name
Acraea rohlfsi
Suffert, 1904 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) rohlfsi

Acraea rohlfsi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern Tanzania. [3] Acraea rohlfsi is very similar to Acraea petraea qv. It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group, but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014. [4]

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References

  1. Suffert, E. 1904 Neue Tagfalter aus Deutsch-Ost-Africa. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 17: 124-132.
  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. Pierre & Bernau, 2014, Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf