Английская Википедия:Acraea mahela
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Acraea mahela is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.[1]
Description
Шаблон:Entomology glossary hatnote A. mahela Bdv. (53 c). Both wings thinly scaled, with light ochre-yellow ground-colour; fore wing diaphanous in the distal part as far as the discal dots and with distinct discal dots in 1 b to 6, a transverse streak at the end of the cell and a dot in the cell; hindwing with free basal and discal dots and small black spots at the distal margin on the extremities of the veins, both surfaces quite similarly coloured and marked. The sexes are quite similar. Madagascar.[2]
Biology
The habitat consists of transformed grasslands and anthropogenic environments.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the Acraea terpsicore species group - but see also Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 [3]
- Acraea (group horta) mahela Henning, 1993, Metamorphosis 4 (1): 8
- Acraea (Acraea) (subgroup horta) mahela; Pierre & Bernaud, 2013, Butterflies of the World 39: 6, pl. 18, f. 5-6
References
External links
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Grosschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.Шаблон:PD-notice
- ↑ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf
