Acraea aurivillii

Acraea aurivillii
	Figures 9, 10 (male) and 11 (female) as Planema alicia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. aurivillii
Binomial name
	Acraea aurivillii; Staudinger, 1896
Synonyms
	Acraea (Actinote) aurivillii; Planema alicia Grose-Smith, 1900; Acraea aurivillii ab. latifasciata Grünberg, 1910; Acraea alciope ab. bakossua Strand, 1912; Acraea alciope f. tella Eltringham, 1912; Planema smithi Aurivillius, 1922; Acraea alciope bombensis Stoneham, 1937; Acraea alciope ochrextensa Stoneham, 1937; Acraea alciope f. flavifasciata Stoneham, 1937; Acraea alciope f. vidua Ungemach, 1932;

The larvae feed on , , , , , and Adenia species.

Subspecies[]

Acraea aurivillii aurivillii (Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, southern and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania, Zambia)
Acraea aurivillii schecana Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 (south-western Ethiopia)

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

The name honours the Swedish entomologist Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius.

^ Staudinger, O. 1896 Neue exotischer Tagfalter. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 9: 193-240.
^ "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 2012-06-04.
^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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