Acraea braesia

Acraea braesia
	In Seitz (1925)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. braesia
Binomial name
	Acraea braesia; Godman, 1885 Godman, F.D., 1885 List of the Lepidoptera collected by H. H. Johnston during his recent expedition to Kiliman-njaro Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1885 : 537-541
Synonyms
	Acraea (Acraea) braesia; Acraea leucosoma Staudinger, 1885; Acraea regalis Oberthür, 1893; Acraea mystica Neave, 1904; Acraea nohara ochracea Le Doux, 1931; Acraea bresia f. lucida Talbot, 1932; Acraea braesia f. leucofasciata Stoneham, 1943;

Acraea braesia is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, north-eastern Uganda, eastern and northern Kenya and north-eastern Tanzania.^[2]

Description

A. braesia Godm. Forewing long and narrow with the distal margin nearly straight, basal half of the upper surface reddish yellow-brown, apical half transparent grey with free yellow spots at the distal margin and black marginal band, which is but little widened at the apex. Hindwing above orange-yellow, often with rose-red tinge, at the base scarcely blackish and with black, unspotted marginal band, proximally somewhat undulate; the discal dots often only showing through from beneath; under surface of the hindwing more or less reddish, with distinct black dots and almost streak-shaped light yellow marginal spots. German and British East Africa; Abyssinia. - f. regalis Oberth. (55 e) has beyond discal dots 3 to 6 on the fore wing a well defined, almost transparent grey subapical band, but the forewing is otherwise densely scaled. German and British East Africa. ^[3]

Biology

The habitat consists of dry thornbush country.

Taxonomy

It is a member of the Acraea caecilia species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.^[4]

References

^ "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 2012-06-01.
^ 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.
^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf