- Source: Acraea medea
Acraea medea is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of Príncipe. It is also considered a subspecies of Acraea egina, Acraea egina medea.
Description
A. medea Cr. (54 d) is in my [Aurivillius] opinion best treated as an independent species. The light yellow marginal spots on the underside of the forewing and the thick black submarginal line which bounds them proximally form quite a new feature, to which nothing in egina and its races corresponds. Both wings above at the base broadly black to vein 2 or 3, then as far as the sharply defined black marginal band, which is 4 to 5 mm. in breadth, yellow-red (male) or white (female) with very large discal dots, arranged quite as in egina; fore wing beneath reddish, at the base and in the female also in the middle light yellow or whitish; hindwing beneath in the middle greenish light yellow or whitish, at the base and at the marginal band with brown-red or orange-yellow spots. Princes Island
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea egina species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014
References
External links
Images representing Acraea medea at Bold.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Acraea medea
- Acraea (butterfly)
- List of butterflies of São Tomé and Príncipe
- Acraea niobe
- List of butterflies of Tanzania
- List of butterflies of Malawi
- List of butterflies of Uganda
- List of butterflies of Equatorial Guinea
- Hera
- List of butterflies of Cameroon
