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Acraea utengulensis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Acraea

Acraea utengulensis

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Acraea utengulensis, the Tanzanian fiery acraea, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in northern and central Tanzania and Zambia.

Taxonomy

Acraea utengulensis is a member of the Acraea acrita species group. The clade members are:

  • Acraea utengulensis
  • Acraea acrita
  • Acraea chaeribula
  • Acraea eltringhamiana
  • Acraea guluensis
  • Acraea lualabae
  • Acraea manca
  • Acraea pudorina
  • Treated as a form of Acraea pudorina by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in Adalbert Seitz's Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde (in English: The Macrolepidoptera of the World) (1907).

    References

    Acraea utengulensis Wikipedia