Species of butterfly
White-barred acraea
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Nominate subspecies in Madagascar and South Africa respectively
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Scientific classification
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Domain:
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Eukaryota
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Kingdom:
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Animalia
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Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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Class:
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Insecta
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Order:
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Lepidoptera
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Family:
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Nymphalidae
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Genus:
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Acraea
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Species:
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A. encedon
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Binomial name
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Acraea encedon
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Synonyms
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- Papilio encedon Linnaeus, 1758
- Hyalites encedon (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Telchinia encedon (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Papilio encedonia Linnaeus, 1767
- Papilio lycia Fabricius, 1775
- Acraea sganzini Boisduval, 1833
- Acraea lycia var. fulva Doubleday, 1848
- Acraea daira Godman and Salvin, 1884
- Acraea braunei Staudinger, 1885
- Acraea lycia ab. infuscata Staudinger, 1885
- Acraea usagarae Vuillot, 1891
- Acraea encedon lycia ab. ascrepticia Strand, 1912
- Acraea encedon ab. fumosa Aurivillius, 1913
- Acraea encedon f. commixta Poulton, 1913
- Acraea encedon f. alcippoides Le Doux, 1923
- Acraea encedon var. nigeriae Schultze, 1923
- Acraea encedon f. perradiata Le Cerf, 1927
- Acraea encedon lycia f. carbonaria Le Cerf, 1927
- Acraea encedon f. poultoni Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea encedon f. infuscatoides Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea encedon f. umbratalcippina Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea encedon f. lycoides Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea lycia f. fulvoides Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea lycia encedonoides Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea lycia f. aurantiaca Le Doux, 1931
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Acraea encedon, the common acraea, white-barred acraea or encedon acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia.[3] It is one of the species of Acraea sometimes separated in Telchinia.
- ^ Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp.
- ^ "Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Metomorphosis" (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. 21 (1). Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. March 2010. OCLC 864847323.