Charaxes hildebrandti
Charaxes hildebrandti, the Hildebrandt's charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. hildebrandti |
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The larvae feed on Dyboscia species.
Subspecies
- Charaxes hildebrandti hildebrandti (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, northern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda)
- Charaxes hildebrandti gillesi Plantrou, 1973 (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes hildebrandti katangensis Talbot, 1928 (eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Zambia, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)
Taxonomy
Charaxes hildebrandti is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.
Realm
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
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)215-264.
External links
- Charaxes hildebrandti images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes hildebrandti hildebrandti images at BOLD
- Charaxes hildebrandti gillesi images at BOLD
- Charaxes hildebrandti katangensis images at BOLD holotype
- Images of C. hildebrandti hildebrandti Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. hildebrandti katangensis (Albertine Rift Project)
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