''Pseudacraea'' is an
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...
butterfly
genus in the subfamily
Limenitidinae. Their placement in the
tribe Limenitidini remains to be verified.
Some of these species are
mimics of
Acraeinae and the present genus is thus known as false acraeas.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
"''Pseudacraea'' Westwood, [1850]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''Pseudacraea acholica">850]"">"''Pseudacraea'' Westwood, [1850]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
*''Pseudacraea acholica'' Riley, 1932
*''Pseudacraea annakae'' Knoop, 1988
*''Pseudacraea boisduvali'' (Doubleday, 1845)
*''Pseudacraea clarki'' Butler, 1892
*''Pseudacraea deludens'' Neave, 1912
*'' Pseudacraea dolomena'' (Hewitson, 1865)
*'' Pseudacraea eurytus'' (Linnaeus, 1758)
*'' Pseudacraea fulvaria'' Butler, 1876
*'' Pseudacraea hostilia'' (Drury, 1782)
*'' Pseudacraea imerina'' (Hewitson, 865
*''Pseudacraea kuenowi
''Pseudacraea kuenowii'', or Kuenow's false acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia.
Descripti ...
'' Dewitz, 1879
*'' Pseudacraea lucretia'' (Cramer, 1775)
*'' Pseudacraea peyrierasi'' Collins, 1991
*'' Pseudacraea poggei'' (Dewitz, 1879)
*'' Pseudacraea rubrobasalis'' Aurivillius, 1903
*'' Pseudacraea ruhama'' Hewitson, 1873
*'' Pseudacraea ruwenzorica'' Grünberg, 1912
*'' Pseudacraea semire'' (Cramer, 779
*'' Pseudacraea simulator'' Grose-Smith, 1873
*'' Pseudacraea striata'' Butler, 1876
*'' Pseudacraea theorini'' Aurivillius, 1891
*'' Pseudacraea victoris'' Eltringham, 1929
*'' Pseudacraea warburgi'' Aurivillius, 1892
References
*Ackery PR, Smith CR, and Vane-Wright RI eds. 1995. '' Carcasson's African Butterflies''. Canberra: CSIRO.
*Larsen, T. B. 2005 ''Butterflies of West Africa''. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books.
*Lees DC, Kremen C, and Raharitsimba T. 2003. "Classification, diversity and endemism of the butterflies (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea): a revised species checklist". In: Goodman SM and Benstead JP, eds. ''The Natural History of Madagascar''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 762-793.
External links
TOLSeitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 46
Limenitidinae
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by John O. Westwood
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