Acraea oscari

Acraea oscari
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Acraea
Species:	A. oscari
Binomial name
	Acraea oscari; Rothschild, 1902
Synonyms
	Acraea (Acraea) oscari;

Acraea oscari is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ethiopia.^[3]

Description

A. oscari Rothsch. (60 d). Wings above dull red with black marginal band of uniform breadth, on the fore wing 5 mm. and enclosing large yellowish marginal spots, on the hind wing only 3 mm. and indistinctly spotted; forewing broad and rounded, above but little black at the base; hindwing above deep black at the base as far as vein 2 and then whitish to the apex of the cell; the black spots of both wings very large and arranged quite as in chilo wings beneath almost as above, but the hindwing broadly whitish in the middle. In the female the ground-colour is brownish white. Abyssinia. ^[4]

Taxonomy

See Pierre & Bernaud, 2014 ^[5]

References

^ Rothschild, W. 1902. Some new African Lepidoptera discovered by Oscar Neumann. Novitates Zoologicae 9: 595-598.
^ "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 2012-05-31.
^ 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre Acraea pdf