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A new species of Acraea Fabricius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Acraeinae) from Ghana, West Africa
Author(s) -
USHER M. B.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
systematic entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1365-3113
pISSN - 0307-6970
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1986.tb00170.x
Subject(s) - nymphalidae , allopatric speciation , lepidoptera genitalia , biology , ecology , population , demography , sociology
Abstract Acraea kraka is a distinctive species, with reduced scales on both forewings and hindwings, from the equatorial forest east of the Dahomey Gap. A similar, allopatric species, A.kibi sp.n., is described from an isolated upland forest within the equatorial forest west of the Dahomey Gap.

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