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Acraea (Acraea) rogersi Hewitson 1873

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*190. Acraea (Acraea) rogersi Hewitson, 1873

WL: 36mm. A. rogersi is a forest butterfly, sporadically occurring in open areas. It is now reported as a new species for Guinea-Bissau. This constitutes its northern geographical limit of distribution, as its previous known range extended from Sierra Leone to Nigeria and southwards to Angola. Subspecies A. r. lankesteri, from Uganda and western Kenya, is currently recognized as a junior synonym of A. rogersi (Pierre & Bernaud, 2013, 2014). The known host-plants are Adenia lobata (Passifloraceae) and Theobroma cacao (Malvaceae).

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, 2 specimens of the brown morph (JB).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.

Notes

Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215

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Biodiversity

Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Acraea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hewitson
Species
rogersi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acraea (Acraea) rogersi Hewitson, 1873 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016

References

  • Hewitson, W. C. (1873) Descriptions of three new species of Rhopalocera from Angola. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 10, 57 - 58.
  • Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D. (2013) Nymphalidae XXIII. Acraea subgenus Acraea. In: Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T. (Eds.), Butterflies of the World, Part 39, pp. 8 pp, pl. 28.
  • Pierre, J. & Bernaud, D. (2014) Le genre Acraea Fabricius, 1807: Liste systematique, synonymique et liste des noms infrasubspecifiques. In: Bauer, E. & Frankenbach, T. (Eds.) Butterflies of the World, Supplement 24, pp. 30.