Acraea buschbecki

Acraea buschbecki is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Cameroon to the western, central and southern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3]

Acraea buschbecki
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. buschbecki
Binomial name
Acraea buschbecki
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) buschbecki
  • Acraea zaire Rogenhofer, 1890
  • Telchinia zaire

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

A. buschbecki Dew. (57 a). Forewing black above, with the same red spots as in orina, but with the stripe in 1 b divided by a black spot in the middle and the cell with an elongate black spot; the spot in 3 is small and placed in or behind the middle of the cellule; under surface as above, but spots 3-6 yellow instead of red and the marginal band striped with yellow. Hindwing above red to the base with black dots, or somewhat darkened at the base, at the distal margin with sharply defined marginal band about 2 mm. in breadth, beneath with yellow ground-colour and black marginal band, which encloses two small yellow dots in each cellule. Cameroons to the Congo; rare. [4]

Taxonomy

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

References
  1. Dewitz, H. 1889. West-und Cetralafrikanisher Tagschmetterlinge. Entomologische Nachrichten. Berlin 15: 101-110.
  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 2012-06-04.
  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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