Pseudacraea semire

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Pseudacraea semire
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudacraea
Species:
P. semire
Binomial name
Pseudacraea semire
(Cramer, 1779) [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Papilio semireCramer, 1779
  • Papilio hyppoliteDrury, 1782

Pseudacraea semire, the green false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania and north-western Zambia. [3]

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Description

Seitz Fauna Africana Taf 46 SeitzFaunaAfricanaXIIITaf46.jpg
Seitz Fauna Africana Taf 46

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semire group. Only a single species, which differs from all others in the very small cell of the hindwing. Ps. semire Cr. (46 a). Both wings black-brown above, in the basal part with large black dots and in the middle with green spots, which on the hindwing form a continuous median band, but on the fore wing are smaller and widely separated, in the cell of the forewing also two small green spots; the interneural folds before the distal margin with broad, black, light-bordered streaks and on the hindwing between these and the green median band with a row of brown-red spots. The under surface is lighter than the upper, especially at the base, and the green spots whitish. Sierra Leone to Angola. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of lowland to sub-montane forest.

The larvae feed on Ouratea species, as well as Campylospermum laeve and Ochna pulchra .

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References

  1. ↑ Cramer, P. [1779-1780]. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America. Amsteldam & Utrecht. 3: 176 pp.
  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 .


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