Acraea utengulensis explained

Acraea utengulensis, the Tanzanian fiery acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern and central Tanzania and Zambia.^[1]

Taxonomy

Acraea utengulensis is a member of the Acraea acrita species group. The clade members are:

• Acraea utengulensis
• Acraea acrita
• Acraea chaeribula
• Acraea eltringhamiana
• Acraea guluensis
• Acraea lualabae
• Acraea manca
• Acraea pudorina

Treated as a form of Acraea pudorina by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (in English: The Macrolepidoptera of the World) (1907). See the Acraea acrita species complex.

Classification of Acraea by Henning, Henning & Williams, Pierre. J. & Bernaud

• Acraea (group acrita) Henning, 1993 ^[2]
• Acraea (Rubraea) Henning & Williams, 2010 ^[3]
• Acraea (Acraea) (subgroup acrita) Pierre & Bernaud, 2013^[4]
• Acraea (Acraea) Groupe egina Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[5]

External links

• Images representing Acraea utengulensis at Bold.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini . 2012-06-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120810134550/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_acraeini.doc . 2012-08-10 . dead .
2. Henning, 1993 Phylogenetic notes on the African species of the subfamily Acraeinae. Part 2-3. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Metamorphosis 4 (1): 5-18, (2): 53-68
3. Henning & Williams, 2010 Taxonomic notes on the afrotropical taxa of the tribe Acraeini Boisduval, 1833 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiinae) Metamorphosis 21 (1) : 2-38
4. Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D., 2013 Nymphalidae XXIII. Acraea subgenus Acraea Butterflies of the World 39 : 1-8, pl. 1-28 Goecke & Evers
5. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf