Charaxes anticlea

Charaxes anticlea, the small flame-bordered charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests, including dry forests, somewhat degraded forests and dense riverine vegetation.

Charaxes anticlea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. anticlea
Binomial name
Charaxes anticlea
(Drury, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio anticlea Drury, 1782
  • Papilio horatius Fabricius, 1793
  • Charaxes anticlea f. horatianus Stoneham, 1936
  • Charaxes anticlea reducta van Someren, 1971

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and sucking-trees.

The larvae feed on Acacia poetzi, Acacia pennata, Mezoneuron benthamianum, Acacia goetzei, Acacia brevispica, Mezoneuron welwitschianum and Mezoneuron angolense.

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 492 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies
  • Charaxes anticlea anticlea (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria)
  • Charaxes anticlea adusta Rothschild, 1900 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Tanzania)
  • Charaxes anticlea mwera Vingerhoedt & Bouyer, 1996 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba)
  • Charaxes anticlea proadusta van Someren, 1971 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, western Central African Republic, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia
  • Charaxes anticlea suna van Someren, 1975 (south-western Kenya)

Taxonomy

Charaxes anticlea is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)181-226.


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