Charaxes dilutus

Charaxes dilutus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Angola.[3] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

Charaxes dilutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. dilutus
Binomial name
Charaxes dilutus
Synonyms
  • Charaxes eupalus dilutus Rothschild, 1898
  • Charaxes dilutus miotoni van Someren, 1975[2]

The larvae feed on Albizia gummifera, Albizia adianthifolia and Scutia species.

Full description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 512 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies
  • Charaxes dilutus dilutus (Malawi, Zambia, eastern Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern and western Tanzania)
  • Charaxes dilutus amanica Collins, 1990 (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi: west-central to the Dzelanyama Range) synonym for Charaxes eupale[2]
  • Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974 (central Kenya, Uganda: south-west to Kigezi, Sudan) synonym for Charaxes eupale[2]

Similar species

Charaxes dilutus is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade). The clade members are

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Bouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt , 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lépidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors série n°3, 2008.
  3. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • Victor Gurney Logan 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.
  • Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe eupale : description d’un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologica Africana Hors Série 3:1-32.


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