Acraea conradti | |
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Figure 10 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. conradti
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Binomial name | |
Acraea conradti | |
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Acraea conradti is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania (from the north-east to the Usambara Mountains) and Mozambique.[3]
A. conradti Oberth. (56 f) differs from all the preceding similarly coloured and marked species [members of the Acraea masamba species group.] in having the apical half of the forewing densely scaled without vitreous spot in 3 but with sharply defined white spots in 4 to 6 and especially in having the veins of the hindwing beneath broadly black at the distal margin and the streaks short and thickened, coniform. Nyassaland and German East Africa. [4]
It is a member of the Acraea circeis species group- but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]