Acraea uvui
| Acraea uvui | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. uvui |
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| Acraea uvui Grose-Smith, 1890 | |
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The Tiny Acraea or Tiny Mountain Acraea (Acraea uvui) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Angola, northern Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi and eastern Zaire. The habitat consists of sub-montane forests at altitudes ranging from 1,200 to 1,400 meters.[1]
Adult males mud puddle and are also attracted to urine and animal excrement.
The larvae feed on Triumfetta species (including Triumfetta rhomboidea and Triumfetta macrophylla) and Sparmannia ricinocarpa.
Subspecies
- Acraea uvui uvui (Democratic Republic of Congo: east to Ituri and Kivu, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, northern Tanzania)
- Acraea uvui balina Karsch, 1892 (Nigeria, Cameroon, highlands of Angola)
Description
Expanse 30–34 mm. Fore-wing. black. A subapical patch of tawny red narrow in 10, 9, and 6, and widened to about double the width in 5 and 4. A central inner marginal patch of the same colour occupying the central part of la and lb, rather more than the basal half of 2, extending slightly into 3 at its base, and into lower part of distal end of cell. Hind-wing. with a black triangular basal patch, central area tawny red often inclining to yellow at inner margin, somewhat indenting the basal patch at upperside of cell. Hind margin with a black border about 2 mm.. wide, its inner edge deeply indented by the red colour in 4 and 5, above this point somewhat convex, and below running horizontally across to innermargin. Underside very like that of bonasia alicia Fore-wing. Basal half pale reddish yellow with dusky indications of the basal black of upperside. The subapical patch ochre yellow, its proximal edge straight or even concave. Remainder of wing brownish black. Hind-wing ochre yellow with a greenish tinge at base. Some irregular black at base of wing and a small basal spot in cell. At about the level of middle of cell a transverse band of irregular confluent black spots usually divisible into five rather large subquadrate marks in 7, cell, 1c, lb, and la. Hind-marginal border as on upperside though occasionally slightly narrower. A marginal series of small white subtriangular spots.
Head and thorax black with two brownish tufts on collar.Abdomen black with very minute pale lateral spots and segmental lines. Claws unequal.[2]
Taxonomy
Acraea uvui is a member of the Acraea bonasia species group see Acraea.
References
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- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini
- ↑ Eltringham, H. (1912) A monograph of the African species of the genus Acraea Fab., with a supplement on those of the Oriental Region. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1912:1-374.
External links
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 56 b and also b as balina.
- Acraea uvui Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernaud
- Acraea balina Le Site des Acraea de Dominique Bernau
- Acraea uvui uvui at Pteron