INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
acutipennis
Auteur
Lathy
Date
1906
Décrit comme
Acraea acutipennis
Lieu du Type
Localité Type
North-eastern Rhodesia
Référence
Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.: 2, pl. 1, fig. 3
Titre de la Source
A contribution towards the knowledge of African Rhopalocera
Publication
Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
Classification proposée aujourd'hui
Classé comme
Synonym
Espèce
diogenes
Sous-espèce
diogenes
Sous-genre
Acraea (Acraea)
Clade
II3a
Groupe
egina
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
Homonym of acutipennis Schultze. Classified as a valid species by Neave (1910), but subsequently by Eltringham (1912) as the male of guillemei Oberthür. However, it was reclassified as a subspecies of guillemei by Eltringham (1916). Synonymized with guillemei by Riley (1921), who also synonymized diogenes Suffert with guillemei. It should be noted that authors have frequently confused guillemei, diogenes, and nohara Boisduval. Talbot (1932) specifies that acutipennis is distinct from guillemei, and that the female is known as lactea; he concludes that acutipennis and lactea should be treated as synonyms of diogenes. Overlaet (1955) follows this position. A. guillemei remains, moreover, a very rare species in collections. Pierre (1988) confirms the synonymy with guillemei.
