Pseudacraea kuenowii

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Kuenow's false acraea
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Illustration of a male from the
Ogooué River, tropical Africa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudacraea
Species:
P. kuenowii
Binomial name
Pseudacraea kuenowii
Dewitz, 1879 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Pseudacraea gazengeliOberthür, 1893
  • Pseudacraea kuenowi ab. ochreofasciataSchultze, 1920
  • Pseudacraea kunowi gottbergi f. overlaetiBerger, 1981
  • Pseudacraea kunowi kunowi f. oremansiHecq, 1992
  • Pseudacraea gottbergi burgessiJackson, 1951
  • Pseudacraea gottbergi burgessi f. albifasciaJackson, 1951
  • Pseudacraea gottbergiDewitz, 1884
  • Pseudacraea kuenowi ab. neumanniThurau, 1904

Pseudacraea kuenowii, or Kuenow's false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. [3]

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Description

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Seitz Fauna Africana Taf.46

Ps. kuenowi strongly recalls Ps. hobleyi in the orange transverse band of the forewing and the white median hand of the hindwing, but has in the basal part of the forewing instead of the black dots a thick black longitudinal streak in the cell and in 1 b.

Subspecies

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Adults mimic Acraea elongata .[ citation needed ]

References

  1. Dewitz, H. 1879. Afrikanische Tagschmetterlinge. Nova Acta Academiae Caesarea Leopoldina-Carolinae Germanicum Naturae Curiousorum 41 (2): 173-212.
  2. "Pseudacraea Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
  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 .