Acraea asema
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. asema
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Acraea asema, the speckled orange acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Angola, Zimbabwe, central and south-eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and southern Tanzania.[3]
Description[]
A. asema Hew. (55 a) is very similar to the preceding species,[ A. violarum ] but on an average somewhat smaller, 36-52 mm., with duller, more grey-yellow ground-colour and smaller black dots, the submarginal dots of the forewing in particular being smaller and rarely all present. Angola, Manicaland, Mashonaland and Nyassaland. - f. gracilis Wichgr. [now forma of Acraea violarum] only differs in having the marginal band of the bindwing narrow, 1 mm. in breadth. Mashonaland. [4]
Biology[]
The habitat consists of dry deciduous woodland.
Adults are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Tricliceras species.
Taxonomy[]
It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group.
References[]
- ^ Hewitson, W.C., 1877 Descriptions of four new species of Acraea from Lake Nyassa Ent. mon. Mag. 14 : 51-52
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
- ^ 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.
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- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 55 a
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- Butterflies described in 1877
- Acraea (butterfly)
- Butterflies of Africa
- Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson
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