INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
aglaonice
Auteur
Westwood
Date
1881
Décrit initialement comme
Acraea aglaonice
Lieu du Type
Oxford (Eltringham, 1912)
Localité Type
Référence
Oates, Matabeleland: 346, pl. fig., fig. 9, 10
Titre de la Source
Entomology. Oates, F., Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls.
Publication
Oates, Matabeleland and the Victoria Falls, App
Classification proposée aujourd'hui
Considéré comme
Espèce
Espèce
aglaonice
Sous-espèce
aglaonice
Sous-genre
Acraea (Acraea)
Clade
II3b
Groupe
natalica
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
Eltringham (1912) classe cette espèce dans son groupe XI.
Texte Eltringham: Male. Expanse 50-62 mm. Wings orange red to rosy red. F.w. A narrow black line along costa (rather wider at apex) and continued along hind margin to angle. Costa, apical and hind-marginal portion of wing including to orange. A slightly dusky suffusion at base. Ends of nervules rather distinctly black. In the subapical region in areas 4 and 5 (and sometimes slightly in 6), a transparent mark caused by a paucity of scales. This transparent marking may be almost absent in dry season examples. Black spots as follows: - A large, transverse, irregularly shaped spot in cell above origin of 2, and a black mark on discocellulars, usually on upper part but sometimes over whole width of end of cell. Beyond cell and just before the transparent marks a discal row of fine spots in 10, 6, 5, 4, and 3, the first sometimes absent, and the last sometimes very small. The three middle spots almost in a straight line, the first rather more distally placed, the fifth with its long axis pointing towards apex. In 2 a spot close to median (absent in one example). In 1b a discal spot below that in 2 and slightly nearer ... Voir Texte complet
