Acraea parrhasia
Acraea parrhasia, the yellow-veined acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
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A. p. parrhasia figure 3 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. parrhasia |
Binomial name | |
Acraea parrhasia | |
Synonyms | |
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The larvae feed on Urtica species (including U. rigida) and Dioscorea smilacifolia.
Subspecies
- A. p. parrhasia (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, western Cameroon)
- A. p. kenya van Someren & Rogers, 1926 (Kenya: north-eastern slopes of Mount Kenya and the Njombeni Hills)
- A. p. limonata Eltringham, 1912 (Bioko)
- A. p. orientis Aurivillius, 1904 (eastern and north-eastern Tanzania, Kenya: south-east to the Teita Hills)
- A. p. servona Godart, 1819 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, southern Ethiopia, western Kenya, north-western Zambia)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Acraea parrhasia. |
- "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 2012-06-05.
External links
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 a also as opidia and (b) servona and (c) ssp. orientis
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 59 e parrhasia
- Images representing Acraea parrhasia at Bold.
- Images representing Acraea servona at Bold.
- Images representing Acraea servona rubra at Bold.
- A. p. servona at Pteron
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