Charaxes eudoxus
Charaxes eudoxus, the Eudoxus charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests, including gallery and riverine forests.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. eudoxus |
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The larvae feed on Schefflera, Syzygium (including S. cordatum and S. guineense) and Garcinia species.
Subspecies
C. e. mechowi figure 4
- C. e. eudoxus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
- C. e. amaurus Poulton, 1929 (western Kenya)
- C. e. biokoensis Canu, 1989 (Bioko)
- C. e. boersmana Plantrou, 1980 (Nigeria: north to central)
- C. e. cabacus Jordan, 1925 (Uganda: north-west shores of Lake Victoria)
- C. e. goubandana Nicat, 2002 (Guinea)
- C. e. imatongensis Plantrou, 1982 (Sudan: south to Imatong Mountains)
- C. e. katerae Carpenter, 1937 (Uganda: south to the western shores of Lake Victoria, north-western Tanzania)
- C. e. lequeuxi Plantrou, 1982 (Rwanda, Burundi)
- C. e. mechowi Rothschild, 1900 (eastern Nigeria, south-western Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, north-western Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic)
- C. e. mitchelli Plantrou & Howarth, 1977 (Zambia)
- C. e. raffaellae Plantrou, 1982 (north-western Tanzania, possibly Burundi)
- C. e. zambiae van Someren, 1970 (Zambia: eastern side of the upper Luangwa Valley)
Taxonomy
The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:
- Charaxes jasius
- Charaxes pelias – smaller than jasius
- Charaxes hansali
- Charaxes castor
- Charaxes brutus – dark with white bands
- Charaxes andara – Madagascar
- Charaxes ansorgei
- Charaxes phoebus
- Charaxes pollux
- Charaxes druceanus
- Charaxes phraortes – Madagascar, close to next
- Charaxes andranodorus – close to last
- Charaxes eudoxus
- Charaxes richelmanni
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes eudoxus. |
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes eudoxus. |
- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1970 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)197-250.
External links
- Charaxes eudoxus lequeuxi images at BOLD
- Charaxes lequeuxi images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes eudoxus raffaellae images at BOLD
- More subspecies images at BOLD Charaxes eudoxus eudoxus, Charaxes eudoxus goubandana, Charaxes eudoxus katerae, Charaxes eudoxus mechowi, Charaxes eudoxus musakensis, Charaxes eudoxus zambiae
- Images of C. eudoxus lequeuxi Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. eudoxus mechowi (Albertine Rift Project)
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