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Acraea ventura

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has thick, sharply defined, bright red streaks in the cell and in cellules 1 c and 7 between the basal and the discal dots and occasionally similar streaks in other cellules also; the yellow marginal spots are very large and proximally produced into red streaks, which are much longer in cellules 1 c to 3 than in cellules 4 and 5; the proximal ends of the red streaks are connected by a dark line which bounds the light median band distally; thus the median band is not of almost uniform breadth, but in cellules 4 and 5 strongly convex towards the base. In the female the ground-colour of the upper surface is grey-yellow and the red streaks in the marginal band of the hindwing beneath are often absent. Southern Congo; Nyassaland; German and British East Africa; Uganda. -
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and has usually a free subapical band on the forewing, with the spots in 4 and 5 much prolonged distally; beneath the forewing has at the distal margin sharply prominent black veins and saffron-yellow streaks on the interneural folds; it is characterized by the under surface of the hindwing; this
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in markings, but has the ground-colour of both wings light yellowish white, and the subapical band of the forewing united with the ground-colour. Victoria Nyanza: Buka Bay.
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Pierre & Bernau, 2014 Classification et Liste Synonymique des Taxons du Genre
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Die exotischen Grosschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter
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Hewitson, W. C. 1877 Descriptions of four new species of
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Acraea
Binomial name
Hewitson
Synonyms
butterfly
Nymphalidae
Malawi
Tanzania
Zambia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Angola
Uganda
Rwanda
Burundi
Kenya
Glossary of entomology terms
Acraea serena
Cassia
species group
Acraea
"Acraea Fabricius, 1807"

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