Acraea disjuncta

Acraea disjuncta is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and Uganda.[3]

Acraea disjuncta
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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. disjuncta
Binomial name
Acraea disjuncta
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) disjuncta
  • Acraea nandensis (Sharpe, 1899)

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

A. disjuncta Sm. (= nandensis E. Sharpe) (60 c) resembles a small male jodutta; both wings blackish above with light yellow markings; the hindmarginal spot of the forewing is broad, without, however, reaching the base of cellules 1 a and 1 b; the subapical band is about 4 mm. in breadth and has a small spot in 3, which touches the hindmarginal spot; the median band on the upperside of the hindwing is about 8 mm. in breadth and the dark, sharply defined marginal band consequently at most 3 mm. Nandi, Ruwenzori; Lake Kiwi. [4]

Subspecies
  • Acraea disjuncta disjuncta (western Kenya, Uganda)
  • Acraea disjuncta kigeziensis Jackson, 1956 (Uganda: west to Toro and Kigezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu and Ituri)

Biology

The larvae feed on Urera hypselodendron.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea jodutta species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]

References
  1. Grose-Smith, H. 1898 Descriptions of new species of African butterflies in the Tring Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 5: 350-358.
  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 2012-06-05.
  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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