Acraea lofua

Acraea lofua
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. lofua
Binomial name
	Acraea lofua; Eltringham, 1911 [1][2]
Synonyms
	Acraea (Acraea) lofua;

Acraea lofua is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-eastern Zambia.[3]

Description

A. lofua Eltr. (60 e). male. Wings above reddish ochre-yellow, at the base narrowly scaled with black and with the usual black dots; fore wing with black marginal band, which is gradually widened at the apex into a spot 3 mm. in breadth, beneath lighter but otherwise almost as above; hind wing above with very broad unspotted, deep black marginal band, which is broader in the middle, beneath with light yellow ground-colour and white marginal spots. The female differs in having the forewing light ochre-yellowish without black discal dots and the hindwing light reddish grey-yellow; the basal and discal dots are very small and the marginal band somewhat narrower than in the male and with grey marginal spots above also. Rhodesia, on the Lofu River.[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of deciduous woodland.

Taxonomy

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

References

Eltringham, H. 1911b. Preliminary descriptions of some new or little-known forms of the genus Acraea. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 149-153.
"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 2012-05-31.
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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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[1] Eltringham, H. 1911b. Preliminary descriptions of some new or little-known forms of the genus Acraea. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 149-153.

[funet-2] "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-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. 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