Acraea guillemei

Acraea guillemei is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae which is native to deciduous woodlands in the southern subtropics of Africa.

Acraea guillemei
A. guillemei in Seitz (1925)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. guillemei
Binomial name
Acraea guillemei
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) guillemei

Range

It is found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Haut-Lomami, Tanganika), north-western Zambia and western Tanzania.[3]

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

A. guillemei Oberth. (acutipennis Lathy) (55 c), as the figure shows, only differs from typical nohara in having the marginal band of the forewing somewhat widened at the apex, the marginal band of the hindwing broader, the discal dot in cellule 4 of the forewing not placed in a straight line with the dots in 5 and 6 and especially in having the discal dot in 3 of te hindwing placed midway between the marginal band and the base of the cellule. Angola and at Lake Tanganyika.[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of deciduous forests.

Taxonomy

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

References
  1. Oberthür, C. 1893. Lepidopteres d’Afrique. Etudes d’Entomologie 17: 17-36.
  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 Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, 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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