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Acraea (Acraea) caecilia subsp. caecilia Fabricius 1781

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193. Acraea (Acraea) caecilia caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)

WL: 27mm. A. caecilia is typical of Sudan savanna, but may displace southwards during the dry season, establishing non-permanent populations. It ranges from West Africa to Chad, south Sudan, Ethiopia and western Kenya. A. c. kulal, considered a synonymy of the nominate subspecies (Pierre & Bernaud 2013, 2014), can be found in the drier and higher areas of northern Kenya, while A. c. pudora is reported from eastern Kenya and the drier areas of Tanzania. Known host-plants are Wormskioldia pilosa (Turneraceae) and Adenia sp. (Passifloraceae).

Studied material. Biombo: Quinhamel, 22.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29342). Cacheu: Caió, not frequent (JB). Quinara: Cantanha (PNLC), 18.07.2009, 1♀ (BS 29341). Tombali: Saltinho, 0 8.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29390).

Previous references. Regions: Bafatá, Bolama, Cacheu, Oio, Quinara Tombali. Auhors: Aurivillius (1910), Bacelar (1949), Bivar-de-Sousa & Passos-de-Carvalho (1987), Bivar-de-Sousa & Mendes (1999), 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 page 50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215

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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3FFDCFFD2FF0EFEA1FC93FD6A

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/192215 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/593BFF8BFFEDFFE3FF99FF86FFE5FFA6 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/A50287F3FFDCFFD2FF0EFEA1FC93FD6A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/126098478 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/37701/taxon/A50287F3FFDCFFD2FF0EFEA1FC93FD6A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
PNLC
Event date
2009-07-18 , 2009-07-22
Verbatim event date
2009-07-18 , 2009-07-22
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Acraea
Species
caecilia
Taxon rank
subSpecies
Taxonomic concept label
Acraea (Acraea) caecilia subsp. caecilia Fabricius, 1781 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016

References

  • Fabricius, J. C. (1781) Species Insectorum 2. Carol Ernest Bohhn, Hamburgi (Hamburg) & Kilonii (Kiel - Germany), [ii] + 499 pp.
  • Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D. (2013) Nymphalidae XXIII. Acraea subgenus Acraea. In: Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T. (Eds.), Butterflies of the World, Part 39, pp. 8 pp, pl. 28.
  • Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D. (2014) Le genre Acraea Fabricius, 1807: Liste systematique, synonymique et liste des noms infrasubspecifiques. In: Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T. (Eds.) Butterflies of the World, Supplement 24, pp. 30.
  • 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. (1949) Macrolepidoptera (Rhopalocera) da Guine Portuguesa. Anais da Junta de Investigacoes Coloniais (Entomologia), 4, 72 - 104.