Charaxes fournierae
Charaxes fournierae, the euphaedra charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. fournierae |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes fournierae | |
Subspecies
- Charaxes fournierae fournierae (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Charaxes fournierae jolybouyeri Vingerhoedt, 1998 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana) considered a full species by Vingerhoedt et al.[3]
- Charaxes fournierae kigeziensis Howarth, 1969 (Uganda: south-west to south-west Kigezi)
- Charaxes fournierae vandenberghei Collins, 1982 (Rwanda: west to the Nyungwe Forest)
Etymology
The name honours Aimée Fournier de Horrack.
Taxonomy
Charaxes acraeoides group.
the supposed clade members are:
- Charaxes acraeoides
- Charaxes fournierae rare
- Charaxes jolybouyeri (as subspecies above) rare
References
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- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- Vingerhoedt, Zakharov, Rougerie & Bouyer, 2010 Révision du statut des membres du groupe de Charaxes acraeoides, Druce 1908; approche intégrant morphologie, biogéographie et code barre ADN. Entomologia Africana n°15, volume 1, page : 36 à 48.
- 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.
External links
- African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt Images and text including subspecies fournierae
- African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt Images and text jolybouyeri
- Charaxes fournierae images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes fournierae fournierae images at BOLD
- Charaxes fournierae kigeziensis images at BOLD
- Charaxes fournierae vandeberghei images at BOLD Holotype
- Charaxes fournierae vandeberghei images at BOLD
- Charaxes fournierae jolybouyeri images at BOLD
- Images of C. fournierae vandenberghei Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search
- External images
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