Acraea newtoni

Acraea newtoni is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on São Tomé Island.[3]

Acraea newtoni
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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. newtoni
Binomial name
Acraea newtoni
Sharpe, 1893 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Actinote) newtoni

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

A. newtoni E. Sharpe. Forewing blackish with a rounded whitish spot in 2 and a whitish subapical band in 4-6; hindwing blackish above, just beyond the apex of the cell with a red-yellow median band, of a uniform breadth of 3 mm., which does not quite reach the inner margin, beneath greenish light grey with black dots as far as the apex of the cell, otherwise as above. Island of Sao Thome; only one male known. [4]

Taxonomy

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

References
  1. Sharpe, E.M. 1893. Descriptions of new species of butterflies from the island of St. Thomas, West Africa. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1893: 553-558.
  2. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. Pyrcz, T.W. (1992). "Rain Forests of São Tomé and Príncipe: Butterflies and Conservation" (PDF). Tropical Lepidoptera. 3 (2): 95–100.
  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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