Acraea chaeribula | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. chaeribula
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Binomial name | |
Acraea chaeribula | |
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Acraea chaeribula is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Haut-Lomani, Lualaba, Haut-Shaba).[3]
A. chaeribula Oberth. (55 b) is very similar to certain forms of the next species [ Acraea acrita ], only differing in the very large and deep black apical spot on the upperside of the forewing. Discal dots 3 to 6 of the forewing are absent and the marginal band of the hindwing is light-spotted. The ground-colour is in the male orange- yellow, in the female sometimes dull dark brown, only yellowish behind the cell of the forewing. Rhodesia, southern Congo, Nyassaland and German East Africa.[4]
The habitat consists of Brachystegia woodland.( Miombo )
Acraea chaeribula is a member of the Acraea acrita species group. The other clade members are:
Classification of Acraea by Henning, Henning & Williams, Pierre. J. & Bernaud