Acraea medea
Species of butterfly
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Acraea medea is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of Príncipe.[3] It is also considered a subspecies of Acraea egina, Acraea egina medea.[4][2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. medea |
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Description
A. medea Cr. (54 d) is in my [Aurivillius] opinion best treated as an independent species. The light yellow marginal spots on the underside of the forewing and the thick black submarginal line which bounds them proximally form quite a new feature, to which nothing in egina and its races corresponds. Both wings above at the base broadly black to vein 2 or 3, then as far as the sharply defined black marginal band, which is 4 to 5 mm. in breadth, yellow-red (male) or white (female) with very large discal dots, arranged quite as in egina; fore wing beneath reddish, at the base and in the female also in the middle light yellow or whitish; hindwing beneath in the middle greenish light yellow or whitish, at the base and at the marginal band with brown-red or orange-yellow spots. Princes Island [5]
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea egina species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [6]
