Acraea asboloplintha

Acraea asboloplintha, the black-winged acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[3]

Acraea asboloplintha
Figures 4, 5 and 6 as Acraea dissociata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. asboloplintha
Binomial name
Acraea asboloplintha
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) asboloplintha
  • Acraea dissociata Grose-Smith, 1898

Description
Seitz Fauna Africana taf 54
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

A. asboloplintha Karsch (54 a). A very distinct species. Forewing above unicolorous dark smoky black with indistinct discal dots and occasionally at the hindmargin in the middle of 1 a with red-yellow scaling, beneath light yellowish brown with distinct discal dots, black fringes and very fine marginal line. Hindwing above light orange-yellow, at the base black as far as vein 2 and with free black discal dots and black fringes, beneath at the base and inner margin red, then light yellowish and beyond the discal dots with light orange-yellow transverse band 4 mm. in breadth, which does not reach the distal margin, so that a light yellowish transverse band is formed. In the female the hindwing above is often yellow-brown instead of orange-yellow. Ruwenzori, Uganda and British East Africa - rubescens Eltr. differs in having the hindwing above rose-coloured, while the forewing has a hindmarginal spot of the same colour, which covers the base of cellule 2 and also a part of the cell. In the female the corresponding parts are white. British East Africa. [4]

Subspecies
  • Acraea asboloplintha asboloplintha (Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo: east to Ituri and Kivu)
  • Acraea asboloplintha rubescens Trimen, 1909 (Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)

Biology

The habitat consists of forests and heavy woodland.

The larvae feed on Basananthe zanzibarica and Adenia lobata.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.[5]

References
  1. Karsch, F. 1894 Einige neue afrikanische Tagfalter aaus den Familien der Nymphaliden, Acraeïden, Danaïdiden und Satyriden Ent. Nachr. 20 (14/15) : 209-240
  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.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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