Acraea newtoni
Species of butterfly
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Acraea newtoni is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on São Tomé Island.[3]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. newtoni |
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Description
A. newtoni E. Sharpe. Forewing blackish with a rounded whitish spot in 2 and a whitish subapical band in 4-6; hindwing blackish above, just beyond the apex of the cell with a red-yellow median band, of a uniform breadth of 3 mm., which does not quite reach the inner margin, beneath greenish light grey with black dots as far as the apex of the cell, otherwise as above. Island of Sao Thome; only one male known. [4]
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea circeis species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [5]
