Acraea lumiri

Acraea lumiri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Cameroon to the central part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3]

Acraea lumiri
Figure 16 holotype
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. lumiri
Binomial name
Acraea lumiri
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) lumiri
  • Acraea lumiri var. camerunica Strand, 1914

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

A. lumiri Baker (60 g). Wings above with orange-red markings; subapical band of the forewing broad and rounded; the hindmarginal spot is very large, reaches the base of cellules 1 a to 2, almost entirely covers the cell and also forms a small spot in cellule 3; the hindwing above almost to the base orange-red with uniform marginal band 2 mm. in breadth and occasionally with some black basal dots. Hindwing beneath yellow with black basa1 and discal dots but without red spots in the basal area and with uniformly curved black marginal band, which encloses large whitish grey marginal spots. Expanse about 34 mm. Cameroons and Congo. [4]


Taxonomy

Acraea lumiri is a member of the Acraea bonasia species group; see Acraea.

See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]

References
  1. Bethune-Baker, G. T. , 1908 Descriptions of new Rhopalocera from the Upper Congo Ann. Mag. nat. hist. (8) 2 (12) : 469-482
  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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