Acraea zonata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. zonata
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Acraea zonata is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya.[3]
Description
[edit]A. zonata Hew. (53 a). Wings brown-yellow with black veins and triangular black spots at the extremities of the veins; forewing with black costal margin, a large black spot in the celi, a discal and a submarginal curved transverse band, which are united at the hindmargin near the hinder angle; these transverse bands are continued on the hindwing by a single band which runs somewhat behind the middle. A rare species, hitherto only met with in German and British East Africa. [4]
Taxonomy
[edit]It is a member of the Acraea satis species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
References
[edit]- ^ Hewitson, W.C. 1877 Notes on a collection of butterflies from Zanzibar with descriptions of two new species of Acraea. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 14: 153-155.
- ^ "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
External links
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- Images representing Acraea zonata at Bold
- Acraea zonata Archived 2020-01-27 at the Wayback Machine at Pteron
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