Charaxes etheocles
Charaxes etheocles, the demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. etheocles |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes etheocles | |
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The larvae feed on Scutia myrtina, Celtis durandii, Griffonia simplicifolia, Albizia gummifera, Celtis gomphophylla, Bandeiraea, Cathormion, Dalbergia and Entada species.
Subspecies
- Charaxes etheocles etheocles (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western and eastern Nigeria)
- Charaxes etheocles carpenteri van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (central and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, north-western Tanzania, northern Zambia)
- Charaxes etheocles evansi van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (Kenya: highlands west of the Rift Valley) may be a full species
- Charaxes etheocles ochracea van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (Extreme Southwestern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo) perhaps a full species
Male and female
Female C. e. etheocles, f. fulgens
Taxonomy
Charaxes etheocles is a member of the species group Charaxes etheocles. The supposed clade members are:
Clade 1
- Charaxes anticlea
- Charaxes opinatus
- Charaxes baumanni
- Charaxes thysi
- Charaxes hildebrandti
- Charaxes blanda
Clade 2
- Charaxes etheocles nominate very variable
- Charaxes kheili
- Charaxes guderiana
- Charaxes ethalion
Unplaced but in etheocles clade
- Charaxes northcotti
- Charaxes pembanus
- Charaxes usambarae
- Charaxes contrarius
- Charaxes petersi
- Charaxes marieps
- Charaxes karkloof
- Charaxes martini
- Charaxes gallagheri
- Charaxes alpinus
- Charaxes nyikensis
- Charaxes mccleeryi
- Charaxes grahamei
- Charaxes aubyni
- Charaxes chepalunga
- Charaxes virilis
- Charaxes fulgurata
- Charaxes berkeleyi
- Charaxes baileyi
- Charaxes manica
- Charaxes pseudophaeus
- Charaxes chintechi
- Charaxes protomanica
- Charaxes ethalion very variable
- Charaxes pondoensis
- Charaxes viola very variable
- Charaxes phaeus
- Charaxes vansoni
- Charaxes loandae
- Charaxes variata
- Charaxes brainei
- Charaxes cedreatis
- Charaxes mafuga
For a full list of this species group see Vingerhoedt African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains [3]
Realm
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes etheocles. |
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes etheocles. |
- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 33 b male and forma ochracea of female
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)75-166.
External links
- Charaxes etheocles images on Charaxes page at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes ochracea images at BOLD
- Charaxes ochracea f. ochreata images at BOLD
- Charaxes ochracea f. orangina images at BOLD
- Charaxes ochracea f. seriata images at BOLD
- Charaxes evansi images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Images of C. etheocles etheocles Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. etheocles evansi (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. etheocles ochracea (Albertine Rift Project)
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