Acraea utengulensis

Acraea utengulensis, the Tanzanian fiery acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern and central Tanzania and Zambia.[2]

Acraea utengulensis
Acraea acrita utengulensis figure 9
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species:
A. utengulensis
Binomial name
Acraea utengulensis
Thurau, 1903[1]
Synonyms
  • Acraea acrita var. utengulensis Thurau, 1903
  • Acraea (Acraea) utengulensis
  • Acraea (acrita) manca f. taborensis Le Doux, 1931

Taxonomy

Acraea utengulensis is a member of the Acraea acrita species group. The clade members are:

Treated as a form of Acraea pudorina by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (in English: The Macrolepidoptera of the World) (1907).

References

  1. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-01.


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