Acraea actinotina | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. actinotina
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Binomial name | |
Acraea actinotina | |
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Acraea actinotina, the puzzling acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and eastern Nigeria.[3] The describer, Percy Ireland Lathy, mistakenly placed this species in Telipna Lycaenidae - the wrong family. Hence the English name puzzling acraea.
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms. |
Forewing on both surfaces in the basal part orange-yellow as far as the costal margin and vein 4, in the apical part above black with two elongate yellow subapical spots in 5 and 6, beneath black-grey with indistinct light subapical spots in 3-6 and broad black bordering to the yellow basal part. Hindwing brown-grey beneath with some small black basal dots.[4]
It is a member of the Acraea jodutta species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]