Charaxes lucyae

Charaxes lucyae is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of sub-montane and montane forests.

Charaxes lucyae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. lucyae
Binomial name
Charaxes lucyae
Synonyms
  • Charaxes eudoxus lucyae van Someren, 1975
  • Charaxes eudoxus mwanihanae Kielland, 1982

Subspecies
  • Charaxes lucyae lucyae (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • Charaxes lucyae gabriellae Turlin & Chovet, 1987 (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • Charaxes lucyae mwanihanae Kielland, 1982 (eastern Tanzania)

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • van Someren, V.G.L., 1975 Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 32 (3):65-136.


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