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Acraea mahela

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Species of butterfly

Acraea mahela
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Acraea
Species: A. mahela
Binomial name
Acraea mahela
Boisduval, 1833
Synonyms
  • Acraea (Acraea) mahela

Acraea mahela is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

A. mahela Bdv. (53 c). Both wings thinly scaled, with light ochre-yellow ground-colour; fore wing diaphanous in the distal part as far as the discal dots and with distinct discal dots in 1 b to 6, a transverse streak at the end of the cell and a dot in the cell; hindwing with free basal and discal dots and small black spots at the distal margin on the extremities of the veins, both surfaces quite similarly coloured and marked. The sexes are quite similar. Madagascar.

Biology

The habitat consists of transformed grasslands and anthropogenic environments.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea terpsicore species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014

  • Acraea (group horta) mahela Henning, 1993, Metamorphosis 4 (1): 8
  • Acraea (Acraea) (subgroup horta) mahela; Pierre & Bernaud, 2013, Butterflies of the World 39: 6, pl. 18, f. 5-6

References

  1. Boisduval, J.B.A. 1833. Mémoire sur les Lépidoptères de Madagascar, Bourbon et Maurice. Nouvelles Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle. Paris 2: 149-270.
  2. "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-05-31.
  4. Aurivillius, 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.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf

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Taxon identifiers
Acraea mahela


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