Acraea toruna

Acraea toruna
Figures 1 and 2 male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. toruna
Binomial name
Acraea toruna Grose-Smith, 1900 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea (Actinote) toruna Acraea johnstoni toruna Acraea lycoa ab. butleriAurivillius, 1899 Acraea johnstoni butleriEltringham, 1912

Acraea toruna is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in south-western Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ituri and Kivu). ^[3]

Description

Very close to Acraea johnstoni q.v. for differences.

Taxonomy

See Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[4]

References

1. Grose-Smith, H. 1890. A list of the butterflies collected by Mr. William Bonny on the journey with Mr. Stanley from Yambuya on the Aruwimi River through the great forest of central Africa; with descriptions of nine new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 463-473.
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. 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 toruna at Bold