Charaxes eupale

Charaxes eupale, the common green 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 Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.[3] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

Charaxes eupale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. eupale
Binomial name
Charaxes eupale
(Drury, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio eupale Drury, 1782
  • Papilio amasia Fabricius, 1793
  • Charaxes schultzei Röber, 1936
  • Charaxes eupale f. citrinella Rousseau-Decelle, 1938
  • Charaxes eupale f. inornata Storace, 1948
  • Charaxes dilutus veneris White & Grant, 1989
  • Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989[2]
  • Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974[2]

The larvae feed on Scutia myrtina, Albizia gummifera, Albizia zygia, Albizia adianthifolia and Cathormion species.

The green colouration is produced by pigments as opposed to being produced structurally, which is common in most green butterflies.

Subspecies

  • Charaxes eupale eupale (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria)
  • Charaxes eupale latimargo Joicey & Talbot, 1921 (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • Charaxes eupale veneris White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi, Tanzania, northern Zambia)

Similar species

Charaxes eupale is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade) The clade members are:

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References

  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Bouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt , 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lépidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors série n°3, 2008.
  3. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini


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