Charaxes elwesi
Charaxes elwesi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1922. It is endemic to Sumbawa and Sumba in the Indomalayan realm (near the Wallace Line).[2]
| Charaxes elwesi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. elwesi |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes elwesi | |
Subspecies
- Charaxes elwesi elwesi (Sumbawa)
- Charaxes elwesi pugnax Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979 (Sumba)
References
- Joicey & Talbot, 1922 New forms of the genus Charaxes (Nymphalidae) from Africa and Malaya Bulletin of the Hill Museum. 1 (2): 335-338
- Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
External links
- Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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