Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Dancing Acraea (Acraea serena) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa, including the area near the Waterberg Biosphere. But it is found also in the whole Africa south of the Sahara. It is the most common of the Acraea, from Dakar to Fort-Dauphin, from Yemen to The Cap.This is the type species of the old genus Telchinia, which may warrant re-separation from Acraea. Formerly, A. serena was often misidentified as Acraea eponina (Small Orange Acraea) or Acraea terpsicore (Tawny Coaster).It is very likely that the butterfly's black-spotted orange markings are a sign of unpalatability and it may well form part of a mimicry ring with Erikssonia edgei.Note on the taxonomy of Acraea manjaca BoisduvalAcraea manjaca from Madagascar now considered to be conspecific with Acraea serena has a complex taxonomic history which illustrates the problems in interpreting the genus as a whole.Here is an account of how Acraea manjacawas placed by different authors.Boisduval notes the proximity with eponina Cramer in his original description of 1833.Doubleday (1848) treats manjaca as a good species (1848) but Guerin (1849) places manjaca in synonymy with serena Fabricius, which was confirmed by Trimen (1862) and Mabille (1886). Aurivillius (1898) considers that manjaca Boisduval is a variety of Fabricius' serena which had, in turn, been put in synonymy with terpsicore Linnaeus by Butler (1894), and which then was thought to be eponina Cramer (Le Doux, 1928, Carcasson, 1961).Eltringham (1912, 1916) considers manjaca Boisduval to be a synonym of rougeti Guérin (Acraea serena). Le Doux (1928) reinstated manjaca as good subspecies of eponina. Van Son (1963) considers manjaca to be a simple form."@en }
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- Acraea_serena abstract "The Dancing Acraea (Acraea serena) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa, including the area near the Waterberg Biosphere. But it is found also in the whole Africa south of the Sahara. It is the most common of the Acraea, from Dakar to Fort-Dauphin, from Yemen to The Cap.This is the type species of the old genus Telchinia, which may warrant re-separation from Acraea. Formerly, A. serena was often misidentified as Acraea eponina (Small Orange Acraea) or Acraea terpsicore (Tawny Coaster).It is very likely that the butterfly's black-spotted orange markings are a sign of unpalatability and it may well form part of a mimicry ring with Erikssonia edgei.Note on the taxonomy of Acraea manjaca BoisduvalAcraea manjaca from Madagascar now considered to be conspecific with Acraea serena has a complex taxonomic history which illustrates the problems in interpreting the genus as a whole.Here is an account of how Acraea manjacawas placed by different authors.Boisduval notes the proximity with eponina Cramer in his original description of 1833.Doubleday (1848) treats manjaca as a good species (1848) but Guerin (1849) places manjaca in synonymy with serena Fabricius, which was confirmed by Trimen (1862) and Mabille (1886). Aurivillius (1898) considers that manjaca Boisduval is a variety of Fabricius' serena which had, in turn, been put in synonymy with terpsicore Linnaeus by Butler (1894), and which then was thought to be eponina Cramer (Le Doux, 1928, Carcasson, 1961).Eltringham (1912, 1916) considers manjaca Boisduval to be a synonym of rougeti Guérin (Acraea serena). Le Doux (1928) reinstated manjaca as good subspecies of eponina. Van Son (1963) considers manjaca to be a simple form.".
- Q4674994 abstract "The Dancing Acraea (Acraea serena) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in South Africa, including the area near the Waterberg Biosphere. But it is found also in the whole Africa south of the Sahara. It is the most common of the Acraea, from Dakar to Fort-Dauphin, from Yemen to The Cap.This is the type species of the old genus Telchinia, which may warrant re-separation from Acraea. Formerly, A. serena was often misidentified as Acraea eponina (Small Orange Acraea) or Acraea terpsicore (Tawny Coaster).It is very likely that the butterfly's black-spotted orange markings are a sign of unpalatability and it may well form part of a mimicry ring with Erikssonia edgei.Note on the taxonomy of Acraea manjaca BoisduvalAcraea manjaca from Madagascar now considered to be conspecific with Acraea serena has a complex taxonomic history which illustrates the problems in interpreting the genus as a whole.Here is an account of how Acraea manjacawas placed by different authors.Boisduval notes the proximity with eponina Cramer in his original description of 1833.Doubleday (1848) treats manjaca as a good species (1848) but Guerin (1849) places manjaca in synonymy with serena Fabricius, which was confirmed by Trimen (1862) and Mabille (1886). Aurivillius (1898) considers that manjaca Boisduval is a variety of Fabricius' serena which had, in turn, been put in synonymy with terpsicore Linnaeus by Butler (1894), and which then was thought to be eponina Cramer (Le Doux, 1928, Carcasson, 1961).Eltringham (1912, 1916) considers manjaca Boisduval to be a synonym of rougeti Guérin (Acraea serena). Le Doux (1928) reinstated manjaca as good subspecies of eponina. Van Son (1963) considers manjaca to be a simple form.".