''Acraea bellona'' is a
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in
Angola
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Description
Close to ''
Acraea acrita'' qv.
Taxonomy
It is a member of the ''
Acraea acrita''
species group.
*''Acraea'' (group ''acrita'') Henning, 1993, ''Metamorphosis'' 4 (1): 12
*''Acraea'' (''Acraea'') (supraspecies ''acrita'') Pierre & Bernaud, 2013, ''Butterflies of the World'' 39: 2, pl. 4, f. 11-12
*''Acraea'' (''Rubraea'') Henning & Williams, 2010, ''Metamorphosis'' 21 (1): 10
[ Henning & Williams, 2010 in ''Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea''; Compiled by Mark C. Williams, 7th ed. (2008) (April 2007)]
References
External links
''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 59''f''
Butterflies described in 1908
bellona Bellona may refer to:
Places
*Bellona, Campania, a ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta, Italy
*Bellona Reef, a reef in New Caledonia
*Bellona Island, an island in Rennell and Bellona Province, Solomon Islands
Ships
* HMS ''Bellona'' (1760), a 74 ...
Endemic fauna of Angola
Butterflies of Africa
Taxa named by Gustav Weymer
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