Acraea hova

Acraea hova is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.[3]

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

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

A. hova Bdv. (53 c) is a large and beautiful species, characterized by the hindwing having a complete row of submarginal dots and very small or even indistinct marginal spots at the extremities of the veins, while the basal dots are placed close to the base and are widely separated from the discal dots; the forewing has usually large and distinct discal dots in (la) lb to 6, a basal dot in 1 b, a dot in the cell and a transverse spot at the end of the cell. Forewing above at least to the discal dots brick-red, then hyaline, occasionally in the female almost entirely hyaline; hindwing above red, at the inner margin yellowish or sometimes in the female yellowish white. Madagascar.[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Taxonomy

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

  • Acraea (group admatha) hova Henning, 1993, Metamorphosis 4 (1): 11
  • Acraea (Acraea) (subgroup admantha) hova Pierre & Bernaud, 2013, Butterflies of the World 39: 4, pl. 15, f. 11-12

References
  1. Boisduval, J.B.A. 1833. Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris 2: 149-270.
  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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