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Acraea cuva

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Acraea cuva
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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. cuva
Binomial name
Acraea cuva
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) cuva
  • Acraea dammi nidama Suffert, 1904

Acraea cuva, the chic acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania and in Malawi, Mozambique and eastern Zimbabwe.[3]

Description

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Very similar to Acraea dammii qv. for diagnosis

Biology

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The habitat probably consists of forests.

Both sexes feed from the flowers of Lantana species.

Taxonomy

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It is a member of the Acraea terpsicore species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [4]

References

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  1. ^ Grose-Smith, H. 1889. Descriptions of twenty-four new species of butterflies captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3: 121-137.
  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 2012-05-30.
  4. ^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf
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