Nominate subspecies in Madagascar and South Africa respectively
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Acraea
Species:
A. encedon
Binomial name
Acraea encedon
(Linnaeus, 1758) [1][2]
Synonyms
Papilio encedon Linnaeus, 1758
Hyalites encedon (Linnaeus, 1758)
Telchinia encedon (Linnaeus, 1758)
Papilio encedonia Linnaeus, 1767
Papilio lycia Fabricius, 1775
Acraea sganzini Boisduval, 1833
Acraea lycia var. fulva Doubleday, 1848
Acraea daira Godman and Salvin, 1884
Acraea braunei Staudinger, 1885
Acraea lycia ab. infuscata Staudinger, 1885
Acraea usagarae Vuillot, 1891
Acraea encedon lycia ab. ascrepticia Strand, 1912
Acraea encedon ab. fumosa Aurivillius, 1913
Acraea encedon f. commixta Poulton, 1913
Acraea encedon f. alcippoides Le Doux, 1923
Acraea encedon var. nigeriae Schultze, 1923
Acraea encedon f. perradiata Le Cerf, 1927
Acraea encedon lycia f. carbonaria Le Cerf, 1927
Acraea encedon f. poultoni Le Doux, 1931
Acraea encedon f. infuscatoides Le Doux, 1931
Acraea encedon f. umbratalcippina Le Doux, 1931
Acraea encedon f. lycoides Le Doux, 1931
Acraea lycia f. fulvoides Le Doux, 1931
Acraea lycia encedonoides Le Doux, 1931
Acraea lycia f. aurantiaca Le Doux, 1931
Acraea encedon, the common acraea, white-barred acraea or encedon acraea, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in sub-Saharan Africa and south-western Arabia.[3] It is one of the species of Acraea sometimes separated in Telchinia.
^Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp.
^"Acraea Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^"Metomorphosis" (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. 21 (1). Lepidopterists' Society of Africa. March 2010. OCLC 864847323.
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