Acraea terpsicore Linnaeus 1758
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Description
Common name: Tawny Coster
Salient characters: Upper side brick red or orange with narrow black boarder along outer wing edge on forewing; hind wing with black border and white spots. Male hind wing with a basal series of four or five black spots.
Remarks: Individuals were observed flying in grass and on flowers of Bauhinia vahlii and Passiflora species at the elevation range of 330-370 m amsl. Individuals were not noticed flying very high, but seems keep flying along the ground
Imaging date: 22-X-2015.
Old distribution: India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Shimla, Sikkim, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Wide distribution reported mainly from Southeast Asia. (Varshney and Smetacek, 2015; Kehimkar, 2014, 2016; Paul Van Gasse, 2018; Sondhi and Kunte, 2018; Kunte et al., 2018).
New distribution: J&K (Manda hills, Jammu).
IUCN threat status: Not yet worked out, also not included in catalogue of life.
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.13185798 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.26515/rzsi/v119/i4/2019/144197 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/13185796 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/8D12FFCDE5134F4FF03DF6649E06EE5C (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/712B87B5E5114F4CF356F17E9FDAEA43 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Acraea
- Species
- terpsicore
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acraea terpsicore Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Sheikh & Parey, 2019
References
- Varshney, R. K., Smetacek, P. 2015. A Synoptic Catalogue of the Butterflies of India: 261 pp, Published by Indi. Pub. New Delhi. India.
- Kunte, K. 2018. Diversity and classification of Indian Butterflies: 235 pp, Published by Indian Foun. for Butterflies.