Charaxes ameliae

Charaxes ameliae, the blue-spotted charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.[2] The habitat consists of forests and Brachystegia woodland.

"Blue-spotted charaxes" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this common name, see Charaxes cithaeron.

Charaxes ameliae
Male from the CAR
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. ameliae
Binomial name
Charaxes ameliae
Doumet, 1861[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes regius Aurivillius, 1889

The larvae feed on Brachystegia spiciformis, Julbernardia globiflora, Albizia adianthifolia and Baikiaea insignis.

In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana

Description

In 1900, a full description was given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in Novitates Zoologicae. See volume 7:287-524 pages 391-394 (for terms see volume 5:545-601).

Taxonomy

Charaxes tiridates group

The supposed clade members are:

For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.[3]

Subspecies
  • C. a. ameliae (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • C. a. amelina Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Tanzania: Kigoma, Malawi, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba)
  • C. a. doumeti Henning, 1989 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • C. a. victoriae van Someren, 1972 (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  3. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.


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