Bematistes pseudeuryta

Bematistes pseudeuryta
Bematistes pseudeuryta as Planema formosa angulata and related species
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Bematistes
Species:	B. pseudeuryta
Binomial name
Bematistes pseudeuryta Godman & Salvin, 1890 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Acraea pseudeurytaGodman & Salvin, 1890 Acraea (Acraea) pseudeuryta Acraea dewitziStaudinger, 1896 Planema formosa angulataSuffert, 1904

Bematistes pseudeuryta is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and western Uganda. ^[3]

Description

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

P. pseudeuryta Godm. & Salv. (dewitzi Stgr.) (58 c). This species has been the subject of a regrettable muddle. In describing their species Godman and Salvin expressly say that the example was designated by Dr. Staudinger pseudeuryta spec, nov.. But in Iris (vol. 9, p. 210) Staudinger writes that he obtained Acraea excisa Btlr. in rather large numbers from the Cameroons and Gaboon and formerly sent it out as Acr. pseudeuryta in litt. Consequently, in my work Rhopalocera Aethiopica I regarded P. excisa and pseudeuryta as the same species. Now, however, Dr. Jordan, who has doubtless examined the type of pseudeuryta, has discovered that pseudeuryta Godm. & Salv. is identical with dewitzi Stgr. and not with excisa. Staudinger must therefore have formerly confused dewitzi and excisa. And the males are really very similar above, as a glance at the figures (58 c) shows, but they are very easily distinguished by the basal half of the hindwing in pseudeuryta being dark brown beneath, distally bounded by a whitish median band, whilst in excisa the entire under surface has the ground-colour almost the same uniform light brown-yellow and lacks the median band. - male fore wing black-brown above with orange-yellow transverse band of almost uniform breadth, which reaches the hindmargin but scarcely the distal margin and on the proximal side is encroached upon in cellules 1 b and 3 by the dark ground-colour; the spots in cellules 1 b- 3 are triangularly incised distally. The hindwing is brown-yellow above, with narrow blackish marginal band 3–4 mm. in breadth and not sharply defined and the basal area more or less darkened; the under surface of the hindwing has a dark brown basal area and a whitish median band, 5–7 mm. in breadth, which becomes gradually narrower towards the costal margin. The under surface of the forewing only differs from the upper in the lighter and duller transverse band. The female is unknown to me. Congo and Angola. - angulata Suff. (59 b) seems from the description only to differ from pseudeuryta in having the marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing narrower at the anal angle and the median band whitish in the middle and perhaps belongs rather to macarista. Southern Congo region near Mukenge. ^[4]

Taxonomy

See Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[5]

References

1. Godman, F.D., & Salvin, O. 1890. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. In: Jameson, J.J., Story of the rear column of the Emin Pasha relief expedition 426-445. London.
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. 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

External links

• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 58 c as dewitzi
• Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 59 bangulata
• Images representing Acraea pseudeuryta at Bold