Charaxes subornatus
Charaxes subornatus, the ornate green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. subornatus |
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The larvae feed on Albizia - A. brownei, A. gummifera and A. zygia.
Charaxes subornatus and Charaxes protoclea
Subspecies
- Charaxes subornatus subornatus (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern and western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Charaxes subornatus couilloudi Plantrou, 1976 (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes subornatus minor Joicey & Talbot, 1921 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Kenya) is considered by some authorities to be a full species[3]
Similar species
Charaxes subornatus is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade). The clade members are:
- Charaxes subornatus
- Charaxes eupale
- Charaxes dilutus
- Charaxes montis
- Charaxes minor
- Charaxes schiltzei
- Charaxes schultzei
- Charaxes virescens
Realm
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
- Bouyer, Th., 1999. Notes sur les Charaxes du <<groupe eupale>> d'Afrique centrale (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Ent. Afr. 4(1): 37-40, pl. V.
- 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.
External links
- African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt images of eupale group
- Images of C. subornatus couilloudi Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. subornatus subornatus (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. minor minor Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- 99635 Charaxes subornatus subornatus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes subornatus couilloudi images at BOLD
- Charaxes minor minor images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes minor karinae images at BOLD
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