Charaxes boueti

Charaxes boueti, the bamboo charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests, woodland and savanna.

Charaxes boueti
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. boueti
Binomial name
Charaxes boueti
Synonyms
  • Charaxes boueti ghanaensis Rousseau-Decelle and Johnston, 1957
  • Charaxes boueti f. irradians Turlin, 1998

The larvae feed on Arundinaria alpinus, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, Bambusa vulgaris and Afzelia species.

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 408 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Taxonomy

Charaxes cynthia group

The group members are:

Subspecies
  • Charaxes boueti boueti (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south), Cameroon (west), Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Charaxes boueti carvalhoi Bivar de Sousa, 1983 (north-western Angola)
  • Charaxes boueti rectans Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda)

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini


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