Acraea grosvenori | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. grosvenori
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Binomial name | |
Acraea grosvenori |
Acraea grosvenori is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and western Uganda.[3]
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A. grosvenori Eltr. (60 b) approximates to the preceding species [ parrhasia ] in size and shape. Forewing above entirely blackish and only in the cell and in place of the spots slightly transparent; hindwing above at the base to veins 2 and 7 black, then brick-red with very narrow dark marginal line and very fine streaks on the interneural folds, beneath uniform orange-yellow with a few small black dots at the base and long streaks at the distal margin on the folds, but the veins scarcely edged with black. Eastern Congo region. [4]
It is a member of the Acraea circeis species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]