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Acraea (Acraea) pseudegina Westwood 1852
Description
192. Acraea (Acraea) pseudegina Westwood, 1852
WL: 34mm. A. pseudegina occurs more frequently in savanna, though it may also colonize forest and agricultural areas. It ranges from Senegal to Angola, Uganda, northwestern Tanzania, western Kenya, Ethiopia and southern Sudan. The caterpillars are known on some species of Passifloraceae.
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, rarely seen (JB).
Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Biombo, Bissau, Gabú, Quinara, Tombali. Authors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1948, 1949), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Larsen (2005), Consciência et al. (2008).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: F; CS: LC.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Acraea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Westwood
- Species
- pseudegina
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Acraea (Acraea) pseudegina Westwood, 1852 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Aurivillius, C. (1910) Schmetterlinge gesammelt in Westafrika von Leonardo Fea in dem Jahren 1897 - 1902. Annali del Museo civico di Storia naturale da Genova, 44, 502 - 506.
- Bacelar, A. (1948) Lepidopteros de Africa principalmente das Colonias Portuguesas. Arquivos do Museu Bocage, 19, 165 - 207.
- Bacelar, A. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.