Acraea ventura is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. ventura
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Description
editventura Hew. (= bukoba Weym.) (55 a) is very similar above to a typical Acraea serena or serena form rougeti and has usually a free subapical band on the forewing, with the spots in 4 and 5 much prolonged distally; beneath the forewing has at the distal margin sharply prominent black veins and saffron-yellow streaks on the interneural folds; it is characterized by the under surface of the hindwing; this has thick, sharply defined, bright red streaks in the cell and in cellules 1 c and 7 between the basal and the discal dots and occasionally similar streaks in other cellules also; the yellow marginal spots are very large and proximally produced into red streaks, which are much longer in cellules 1 c to 3 than in cellules 4 and 5; the proximal ends of the red streaks are connected by a dark line which bounds the light median band distally; thus the median band is not of almost uniform breadth, but in cellules 4 and 5 strongly convex towards the base. In the female the ground-colour of the upper surface is grey-yellow and the red streaks in the marginal band of the hindwing beneath are often absent. Southern Congo; Nyassaland; German and British East Africa; Uganda. - ochrascens E. Sharpe nearly agrees with ventura in markings, but has the ground-colour of both wings light yellowish white, and the subapical band of the forewing united with the ground-colour. Victoria Nyanza: Buka Bay. [4]
Biology
editThe habitat consists of marshy areas.
The larvae feed on Cassia species.
Subspecies
edit- Acraea ventura ventura (Malawi, southern Tanzania, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, Angola)
- Acraea ventura ochrascens Sharpe, 1902 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
Taxonomy
editAcraea ventura is a member of the Acraea bonasia species group; see Acraea.See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
References
edit- ^ Hewitson, W. C. 1877 Descriptions of four new species of Acraea from Lake Nyassa Ent. mon. Mag. 14 : 51-52
- ^ "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 2012-06-05.
- ^ 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
External links
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- Images representing Acraea ventura at Bold.
- Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 56 a
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