Charaxes penricei

Charaxes penricei, the scarce savanna charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of savanna, especially Brachystegia woodland.

Scarce savanna charaxes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. penricei
Binomial name
Charaxes penricei Rothschild, 1900[1]
Synonyms
Charaxes peculiaris Lathy, 1906 Charaxes penricei ab. flavus Lathy, 1925 Charaxes penricei penricei ab. paraperpullus White, 1978 Charaxes penricei f. dealbata Joicey and Talbot, 1922 Charaxes penricei tanganyikae f. caerulescens van Someren, 1969

The larvae feed on Entada species and Securidaca longipedunculata.

Description

The original description written by Walter Rothschild is available on line through Google Books. See page 460 of "A Monograph of Charaxes and the Allied Prionopterous Genera" from Novitates Zoologicae volume VII, number 3, December 1900.

Subspecies

• Charaxes penricei penricei (eastern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, southern Tanzania, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe)
• Charaxes penricei dealbata van Someren, 1966 (Congo, north-western Angola, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Charaxes penricei tanganyikae van Someren, 1966 (western Tanzania)

Taxonomy

Charaxes etesipe is a member of the species group Charaxes etesipe.

The clade members are:

• Charaxes etesipe (nominate)
• Charaxes penricei
• Charaxes achaemenes
• Charaxes paradoxa
• Charaxes cacuthis

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, Victor Gurney Logan (1966). Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 45-101.
• Van Someren, Victor Gurney Logan (1969). Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 75-166. Additional notes.

External links

• Images of C. penricei penricei Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. penricei tanganyikae (Albertine Rift Project)
• Charaxes penricei images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Charaxes penricei penricei images at BOLD
• Charaxes cf. penricei images at BOLD