Charaxes fournierae

Charaxes fournierae, the euphaedra charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

Charaxes fournierae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. fournierae
Binomial name
Charaxes fournierae

Subspecies

  • Charaxes fournierae fournierae (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
  • Charaxes fournierae jolybouyeri Vingerhoedt, 1998 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana) considered a full species by Vingerhoedt et al.[3]
  • Charaxes fournierae kigeziensis Howarth, 1969 (Uganda: south-west to south-west Kigezi)
  • Charaxes fournierae vandenberghei Collins, 1982 (Rwanda: west to the Nyungwe Forest)

Etymology

The name honours Aimée Fournier de Horrack.

Taxonomy

Charaxes acraeoides group.

the supposed clade members are:

References

  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  3. Vingerhoedt, Zakharov, Rougerie & Bouyer, 2010 Révision du statut des membres du groupe de Charaxes acraeoides, Druce 1908; approche intégrant morphologie, biogéographie et code barre ADN. Entomologia Africana n°15, volume 1, page : 36 à 48.
  • 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.


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