Acraea atolmis

Acraea atolmis, the scarlet acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, western Zambia, the southern and western part of the DRC and Angola.[3]

Scarlet acraea
Male, upper and underwing
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. atolmis
Binomial name
Acraea atolmis
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) atolmis
  • Acraea acontias Westwood, 1881
  • Acraea (Telchinia) luxi Rogenhofer, 1890
  • Acraea acontias ab. decora Weymer, 1901
  • Acraea atolmis ab. nigra Neustetter, 1916
  • Acraea atolmis f. westwoodi van Son, 1963

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

A. atolmis Westw. agrees very closely with A. nohara and only differs essentially in having the veins of the hindwing black in the distal part and in the entire absence of the marginal band of the hindwing on both surfaces. Damaraland, Rhodesia, Angola and the southern Congo. - f. acontias Westw. (55 c as atolmis) is the rainy-season form and differs in having all the black dots larger and particularly in the hindwing having a distinct marginal band, though only 1 mm. in breadth, above unspotted, beneath enclosing narrow, transversely placed rectangular whitish marginal spots. The female has the ground-colour of both wings brown to black-grey. - ab. decora Weym. is a melanotic aberration of the in which the middle of the fore wing above is blackish. Angola. [4]

Biology

The habitat consists of deciduous woodland.

Adults are on wing year round.

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.[5]


References
  1. Westwood, J. O., 1881. Entomology. In: Oates, F. Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls London.
  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 2012-05-31.
  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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