INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
albula
Auteur
Joicey & Talbot
Date
1922
Décrit comme
Acraea asboloplintha f. rubescens f. albula
Lieu du Type
Localité Type
Kivu district
Référence
Bull. Hill. Mus., 1: 340
Titre de la Source
New forms of butterflies from Africa
Publication
Bulletin of the Hill Musé um, Witley, Survey, London
Classification proposée aujourd'hui
Classé comme
Form
Espèce
asboloplintha
Sous-espèce
asboloplintha
Sous-genre
Acraea (Acraea)
Clade
II3b
Groupe
natalica
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
The authors state that Trimen’s subspecies rubescens is invalid, as white forms are found in Kivu. In 1928, they revisited this position in an article in which they explained that the white female form is, in fact, the type female of rubescens. It must therefore be concluded that albula is a synonym. Furthermore, Joicey and Talbot also reconsider the fact that rubescens is merely an aberration, and acknowledge that this description refers to the East African subspecies, despite a slight overlap in distribution ranges in Kivu. Pierre & Ducarme (2019) demonstrate that the white females of Kivu are distinct from the subspecies rubescens.
