Acraea bomba | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Acraea |
Species: | A. bomba
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Binomial name | |
Acraea bomba | |
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Acraea bomba, the Bomba acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and on the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe.[3]
Description
[edit]Very similar to Acraea anacreon qv. for diagnosis
Biology
[edit]The habitat consists of grassland and open woodland.
Adults are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Alchemilla gracilipes, Aeschynomene, Adenia and Wormskioldia species.
Taxonomy
[edit]It is a member of the Acraea rahira species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [4]
References
[edit]- ^ Grose-Smith, H. 1889. Descriptions of twenty-four new species of butterflies captured by Mr. Last in the neighbourhood of Mombasa, East Coast of Africa, in the collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 3: 121-137.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Acraeini". Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-06-05.
- ^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf