Charaxes chanleri

Charaxes chanleri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-central and northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

Charaxes chanleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. chanleri
Binomial name
Charaxes chanleri

Original description

In 1895, William Jacob Holland wrote:

Charaxes chanleri, new species.

This species comes nearer to C. kirkii, Butler, than any other, but maybe distinguished from that species by the fact that the secondaries [hindwings] have no red inclosed spots or curved dashes in the first four divisions of the marginal markings, as described by Dr. Butler; the submarginal series of lunulate spots are not white edged, as in Kirkii, and there is no discal lunulate green line as in Dr. Butler's species. The primaries [forewings], moreover, are not shot with steel blue at the base.

Expanse of wings, 65 mm.

Four damaged males of this species in the National Museum collection. The species is allied to C. guderiana, Dewitz, resembling the latter in the form of the wings.[3]

Vingerhoedt provides images[4]

Taxonomy

Considered conspecific with Charaxes kirki kirkii by Turlin and Vingerhoedt.[4]

Etymology

It was named for William A. Chanler, one of the collectors.[5]

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
  3. Holland, W. J. (1896). "List of the Lepidoptera collected in Somali-Land, East Africa, by Mr. William Astor Chanler and Lieutenant Von Hoehnel". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Smithsonian Institution Press: 263. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.1063.259. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  4. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16.
  5. Orator Fuller Cook, East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1895.


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