Charaxes boueti
Charaxes boueti, the bamboo charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests, woodland and savanna.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. boueti |
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| Charaxes boueti Feisthamel, 1850[1] | |
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The larvae feed on Arundinaria alpinus, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, Bambusa vulgaris and Afzelia species.
Description
A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 408 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )
Taxonomy
Charaxes cynthia group
The group members are:
- Charaxes cynthia similar to Charaxes lucretius
- Charaxes protoclea
- Charaxes boueti close to next
- Charaxes lasti close to last
- Charaxes alticola
Subspecies
- Charaxes boueti boueti (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south), Cameroon (west), Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Charaxes boueti carvalhoi Bivar de Sousa, 1983 (north-western Angola)
- Charaxes boueti rectans Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda)
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
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31
- 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
- Images of C. boueti boueti Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes rectans images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes boueti images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes boueti rectans images at BOLD
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search
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