Acraea buettneri

Acraea buettneri, the Buettner's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia (the north-western part of the country and the Copperbelt).[3]

Acraea buettneri
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. buettneri
Binomial name
Acraea buettneri
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) buettneri
  • Acraea felina Trimen, 1891
  • Acraea buettneri parapetraea Schouteden, 1919
  • Acraea buettneri f. contracta Le Doux, 1923
  • Acraea buettneri f. nigroapicalis Overlaet, 1955

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

A. buettneri Rog. (54 f). Wings above orange-yellow with large angular black dots, which are arranged as in petraea ; distal margin and apex of the forewing narrowly black and the veins before the distal margin black-edged; wings beneath more reddish yellow and the hindwing often with red spots at the base; marginal band narrow, 1 to 1.5 mm. in breadth, above unspotted, beneath with large, transversely placed white marginal spots; the discal dot in 3 large and nearer to the distal margin than those in 2 and 4. Damaraland, Rhodesia and southern Congo. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of woodland.

Taxonomy

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


References
  1. Rogenhofer, A. F. Afrikanische Schmetterling des k. k. naturhist. Hofmuseums Annalen des K.K. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums.. 4 : 547-554, pl. 23
  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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