Charaxes baumanni

Charaxes baumanni, the little charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of open forests and woodland.

Charaxes baumanni
Female C. b. whytei, figure 3
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. baumanni
Binomial name
Charaxes baumanni
Synonyms
  • Charaxes selousi Trimen, 1894
  • Charaxes whytei Butler, 1894

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and also feed on animal scats. Adults are on wing year round.

Woodland savanna habitat in Kenya

The larvae feed on Acacia brevispica, Acacia seyal, Acacia brevispica, Pterolobium stellatum and Caesalpinia decapetala.

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 491-492 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies

  • C. b. baumanni (north-eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya)
  • C. b. bamptoni van Someren, 1974 (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal)
  • C. b. bwamba van Someren, 1971 (Uganda: Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu)
  • C. b. didingensis van Someren, 1971 (Sudan: south to the Didinga Mountains, northern Uganda, northern Kenya)
  • C. b. granti Turlin, 1989 (eastern Tanzania)
  • C. b. interposita van Someren, 1971 (western Kenya, eastern and central Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • C. b. nyiro Collins & Larsen, 1991 (Kenya: north to Mount Nyiro)
  • C. b. selousi Trimen, 1894 (southern and eastern Zimbabwe, central Zambia)
  • C. b. tenuis van Someren, 1971 (northern Tanzania, Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)
  • C. b. whytei Butler, 1894 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern and western Tanzania, northern and eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique)

Taxonomy

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

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References

  • 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.
  • Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. Additional notes.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.