Acraea diogenes | |
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Acraea diogenes in Seitz (1925) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. diogenes
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Binomial name | |
Acraea diogenes | |
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Acraea diogenes is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (from the south to Haut-Lomani and Lualaba), Angola and north-western and north-eastern Zambia.[3]
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A. diogenes Suff . (55 f) is only known in the female, but suggests a thinly scaled form of the preceding species [ Acraea leucopyga ]. Forewing transparent whitish grey, at the apex and distal margin broadly darkened, with discal dots in 1 b and 2 and occasionally also with a median dot, but with no other dots. Hindwing somewhat more fully scaled, above dull grey, beneath with reddish spots; marginal band and black dots almost as in leucopyga. Southern Congo.[4]
It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. But see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.[5]