Acraea utengulensis
Species of butterfly
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Acraea utengulensis, the Tanzanian fiery acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern and central Tanzania and Zambia.[3]
| Tanzanian fiery acraea | |
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| Acraea acrita utengulensis figure 9 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Acraea |
| Species: | A. utengulensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acraea utengulensis | |
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Taxonomy
Acraea utengulensis is a member of the Acraea acrita species group. The clade members are:
- Acraea utengulensis
- Acraea acrita
- Acraea chaeribula
- Acraea eltringhamiana
- Acraea guluensis
- Acraea lualabae
- Acraea manca
- Acraea pudorina
Treated as a form of Acraea pudorina by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (in English: The Macrolepidoptera of the World) (1907). See the Acraea acrita species complex.
Classification of Acraea by Henning, Henning & Williams, Pierre. J. & Bernaud
