Acraea igola Trimen, 1889

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2018, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamily Helconiinae, Journal of Natural History 52 (39 - 40), pp. 2511-2552 : 2533

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2018.1539780

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5188863

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/017B87D3-694F-5123-C58C-72EBF382FDAF

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Acraea igola Trimen, 1889
status

 

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d ’ Abrera 1997: 141 (3 figs). Bernaud and Murphy 2014: 121 (8 figs, Malawi). SI: Figure 20a – h.

Forewing length: male 21.0 – 28.0 mm [mean (n = 6) 23.92 mm, SD = 1.913]; female 22.5 – 27.5 mm [mean (n = 3) 25.30 mm, SD = 1.852].

Note: the sexes are similar but the ground colour of the female is either orange like the male, but somewhat paler, overall more diaphanous, or (in some South African individuals at least) yellowish or straw-coloured (treated by van Son 1963 as f. ‘ maculiventris ’ Smith and Kirby, 1894).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Acraea

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