Acraea atolmis

Scarlet acraea
	Male, upper and underwing
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. atolmis
Binomial name
	Acraea atolmis; Westwood, 1881
Synonyms
	Acraea (Acraea) atolmis; Acraea acontias Westwood, 1881; Acraea (Telchinia) luxi Rogenhofer, 1890; Acraea acontias ab. decora Weymer, 1901; Acraea atolmis ab. nigra Neustetter, 1916; Acraea atolmis f. westwoodi van Son, 1963;

Acraea atolmis, the scarlet acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, western Zambia, the southern and western part of the DRC and Angola.^[3]

Description

A. atolmis Westw. agrees very closely with A. nohara and only differs essentially in having the veins of the hindwing black in the distal part and in the entire absence of the marginal band of the hindwing on both surfaces. Damaraland, Rhodesia, Angola and the southern Congo. - f. acontias Westw. (55 c as atolmis) is the rainy-season form and differs in having all the black dots larger and particularly in the hindwing having a distinct marginal band, though only 1 mm. in breadth, above unspotted, beneath enclosing narrow, transversely placed rectangular whitish marginal spots. The female has the ground-colour of both wings brown to black-grey. The aberratio form decora Weym. is a melanotic aberration in which the middle of the fore wing above is blackish.^[4]^[5]

Biology

The habitat consists of deciduous woodland.

Adults are on wing year round.

The larvae feed on Triumfetta species.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.^[6]

References

^ Westwood, J. O., 1881. Entomology. In: Oates, F. Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls London.
^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Eltringham, Harry (1912). "Monograph of the African species of the Genus Acraea, Fab., with a supplement on those of the Oriental Region". Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1912 (Part I): 137–139.
^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014. Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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[1] Westwood, J. O., 1881. Entomology. In: Oates, F. Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls London.

[funet-2] "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-3] "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-31.

[4] Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[5] Eltringham, Harry (1912). "Monograph of the African species of the Genus Acraea, Fab., with a supplement on those of the Oriental Region". Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1912 (Part I): 137–139.

[6] Pierre & Bernau, 2014. Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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