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Pseudacraea imerina

Pseudacraea imerina is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar and the Comoros.[3]

Pseudacraea imerina
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Pseudacraea
Species:
P. imerina
Binomial name
Pseudacraea imerina
Synonyms
  • Diadema imerina Hewitson, 1865
  • Panopea glaucina Guenée, 1865
  • Pseudacraea glaucina anjouana Collins, 1991

Description edit

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glaucina group -the only species of this group differs very considerably from all others and is quite isolated. P. glaucina Guen. Forewing black with two large green spots at the base of cellules 1 b and 2; cell short, green with three black spots at the anterior margin; midway between the cell and the apex of the wing 5 small, free green spots in cellules 3-6 and 9, arranged in a curve; small greenish submarginal dots. Hindwing unicolorous black above, with a triangular chalk-white spot at the costal margin in cellule 7 and very small whitish submarginal dots; beneath dark grey, at the distal margin blackish and at the hindmargin yellowish white to beyond the middle. Madagascar; rare. [4]

Subspecies edit

  • Pseudacraea imerina imerina (southern and eastern Madagascar)
  • Pseudacraea imerina anjouana Collins, 1991 (Comoro Islands: Anjouan)

Biology edit

The habitat consists of forests.

Gallery edit

References edit

  1. ^ Hewitson W.C. ,1865 in Hewitson W.C. and Saunders, W. W. llustrations of new species of exotic butterflies : selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson London : John Van Voorst, [1856]-1876.
  2. ^ "Pseudacraea Westwood, [1850]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Tribe Limenitidini
  4. ^ 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.


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