Acraea braesia

Acraea braesia is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, north-eastern Uganda, eastern and northern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.[2]

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Acraea braesia
In Seitz (1925)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. braesia
Binomial name
Acraea braesia
Godman, 1885 Godman, F.D., 1885 List of the Lepidoptera collected by H. H. Johnston during his recent expedition to Kiliman-njaro Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1885 : 537-541[1]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) braesia
  • Acraea leucosoma Staudinger, 1885
  • Acraea regalis Oberthür, 1893
  • Acraea mystica Neave, 1904
  • Acraea nohara ochracea Le Doux, 1931
  • Acraea bresia f. lucida Talbot, 1932
  • Acraea braesia f. leucofasciata Stoneham, 1943

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

A. braesia Godm. Forewing long and narrow with the distal margin nearly straight, basal half of the upper surface reddish yellow-brown, apical half transparent grey with free yellow spots at the distal margin and black marginal band, which is but little widened at the apex. Hindwing above orange-yellow, often with rose-red tinge, at the base scarcely blackish and with black, unspotted marginal band, proximally somewhat undulate; the discal dots often only showing through from beneath; under surface of the hindwing more or less reddish, with distinct black dots and almost streak-shaped light yellow marginal spots. German and British East Africa; Abyssinia. - f. regalis Oberth. (55 e) has beyond discal dots 3 to 6 on the fore wing a well defined, almost transparent grey subapical band, but the forewing is otherwise densely scaled. German and British East Africa. [3]

Biology

The habitat consists of dry thornbush country.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.[4]

References
  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.
  3. 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.
  4. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf
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