Acraea obeira

Acraea obeira is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. Records from South Africa, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, eastern Zambia and southern Malawi refer to Acraea burni.

Acraea obeira
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. obeira
Binomial name
Acraea obeira
Synonyms
  • Hyalites obeira (Hewitson, 1863)
  • Acrea piva Guenée, 1865
  • Acraea andromba Grose-Smith, 1891

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

A. obeira Hew. (53 d) differs from A.lia in having the marginal band of the hindwing broader but not sharply defined, adorned wdth red or yellowish marginal spots and on the under surface not bounded proxi- mally by red spots; in the male the forewing is red-yellow at the base as far as vein 2 or 3, in the female almost entirely hyaline; the hindwing is red-yellow (male) or whitish yellow (female) from the base to the discal dots, then hyaline as far as the marginal hand or only scaled in cellules 1 c to 2, 6 and 7; discal dots 2 to 7 of the hindwing usually large and confluent. Madagascar. - burni Btlr. [ now species Acraea burni ] only differs in the male having the forewing to the apex of the cell and the hindwing as far as the marginal hand scaled with light ochre-yellowish. Natal. [3]

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea pentapolis species group.- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [4]


References
  1. Hewitson, W.C. 1863. A list of the diurnal Lepidoptera taken in Madagascar by Mr. Caldwell. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863: 64-65.
  2. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  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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