INFORMATIONS DETAILLEES SUR LA DESCRIPTION ET SUR SA CLASSIFICATION
Description
conjuncta
Auteur
Grose-Smith
Date
1898
Décrit comme
Acraea conjuncta
Lieu du Type
Tring (Eltringham, 1912)
Localité Type
Kenya: Nandi Station
Référence
Novit. Zool. 5: 351
Titre de la Source
Description of new species of African Butterflies in the Tring Museum
Publication
Novitates Zoologicae. A journal of Zoology in connection with the Tring Museum.
Classification proposée aujourd'hui
Classé comme
Synonym
Espèce
ansorgei
Sous-espèce
ansorgei
Sous-genre
Acraea (Actinote)
Clade
I4c
Groupe
lycoa
Observations et histoire de la classification de la description
Does Grose-Smith describe conjuncta in reference to nandina? (Was he referring to nandensis Sharpe?). Aurivillius (1898) classifies this taxon as a species. Eltringham (1912, 1916) does the same. Le Doux (1931), van Someren (1931) and Bryk (1931), on the other hand, classify conjuncta as a synonym of ansorgei Grose-Smith. On the basis of repeated rearing experiments, Bryk first and then van Someren demonstrated that both forms are obtained from the same clutches. Howarth (1969) classifies conjuncta as a form of ansorgei, and notes that Grose-Smith recognised his error and acknowledged the conspecificity of these two descriptions.
