Acraea diogenes

Acraea diogenes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from the south to Haut-Lomani and Lualaba), Angola and north-western and north-eastern Zambia.[3]

Acraea diogenes
Acraea diogenes in Seitz (1925)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. diogenes
Binomial name
Acraea diogenes
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) diogenes
  • Acraea acutipennis Lathy, 1906
  • Acraea lactea Neave, 1910

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

A. diogenes Suff . (55 f) is only known in the female, but suggests a thinly scaled form of the preceding species [ Acraea leucopyga ]. Forewing transparent whitish grey, at the apex and distal margin broadly darkened, with discal dots in 1 b and 2 and occasionally also with a median dot, but with no other dots. Hindwing somewhat more fully scaled, above dull grey, beneath with reddish spots; marginal band and black dots almost as in leucopyga. Southern Congo.[4]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. But see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.[5]

References
  1. Suffert, E. 1904 Neue afrikanisches Tagfalter aus dem Kon. Zool. Museum, Berlin, und meiner Sammlung. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 17: 12-107.
  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 2012-05-31.
  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.Public Domain 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
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