INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
astrigera
Auteur
Butler
Date
1899
Décrit comme
Acraea astrigera
Lieu du Type
London (Eltringham, 1912)
Localité Type
Road of Machako's to Naugia, 4800 feet (British east Africa)
Référence
Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.: 421, pl. 25, fig. 5
Titre de la Source
On two small Collections of Butterflies made by Mr. Richard Crawshay during 1898 in British East Africa
Publication
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
Classification proposée aujourd'hui
Classé comme
Subspecies
Espèce
pseudolycia
Sous-espèce
astrigera
Sous-genre
Acraea (Acraea)
Clade
II4a
Groupe
zetes
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
Described as closely related to barberi Trimen. Suffert (1904) classifies astrigera as a species, as well as emini Weymer, without making the connection between the two descriptions. Also classified as a species by Neave (1910) and Strand (1911). Eltringham (1912–1916) classifies this taxon as a subspecies (p. 105, end note) and not as a form of pseudolycia Butler, whilst noting that although very similar in habit to certain forms of zetes Linnaeus, astrigera differs from them in its genitalia. However, Aurivillius (1922) classifies astrigera as the most extreme form of zetes. Carcasson (1961) classifies astrigera as a subspecies of pseudolycia.
