Acraea vesperalis

Acraea vesperalis, the rare musanga acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[3]

Acraea vesperalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. vesperalis
Binomial name
Acraea vesperalis
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) vesperalis
  • Acraea catori Bethune-Baker, 1904
  • Acraea vesperalis ab. punctula Strand, 1914
  • Acraea vesperalis ab. picta Schouteden, 1919

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

A. vesperalis Smith (56 f). Fore wing broadly darkened at the apex and distal margin, semitransparent and with distinct dark transverse bands. Hind wing above light ochre-yellow with black-brown marginal band about 4 mm. in breadth, beneath dark ochre-yellow with long dark streaks on the interneural folds. Sierra Leone to the Congo and Uganda. - catori Beth. Baker. Ground-colour of the hindwing light yellow. Sierra Leone. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Musanga and Myrianthus species.

Taxonomy

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


References
  1. Grose-Smith, H. 1890 A list of the butterflies collected by Mr. William Bonny on the journey with Mr. Stanley from Yambuya on the Aruwimi River through the great forest of central Africa; with descriptions of nine new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1890: 463-473.
  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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