Acraea buettneri
Species of butterfly
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Acraea buettneri, the Buettner's acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and Zambia (the north-western part of the country and the Copperbelt).[3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. buettneri |
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| Acraea buettneri | |
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Description
A. buettneri Rog. (54 f). Wings above orange-yellow with large angular black dots, which are arranged as in petraea; distal margin and apex of the forewing narrowly black and the veins before the distal margin black-edged; wings beneath more reddish yellow and the hindwing often with red spots at the base; marginal band narrow, 1 to 1.5 mm. in breadth, above unspotted, beneath with large, transversely placed white marginal spots; the discal dot in 3 large and nearer to the distal margin than those in 2 and 4. Damaraland, Rhodesia and southern Congo.[4]
Biology
The habitat consists of woodland.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea cepheus species group. See also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014.[5]
