Charaxes jahlusa

Pearl-spotted emperor
	From Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. jahlusa
Binomial name
	Charaxes jahlusa; (Trimen, 1862)
Synonyms
	Nymphalis jahlusa Trimen, 1862; Charaxes argynnides Westwood, 1864; Charaxes jahlusa kenyensis f. pallene van Someren, 1974; Charaxes jahlusa kigoma van Someren, 1974;

Charaxes jahlusa, the pearl-spotted emperor or pearl spotted charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in southern Africa.[1]

The wingspan is 43–56 mm in males and 50–62 mm in females. Flight period is from October to March, some species are year-round.[2]

Larvae feed on Pappea capensis, Dalbergia melanoxylon, and Haplocoelum foliosum.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Charaxes jahlusa is the sole member of the Charaxes jahlusa species group

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.[1]

C. j. argynnides Westwood, 1864 — southern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland
C. j. ganalensis Carpenter, 1937 — southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda, western Kenya
C. j. jahlusa (Trimen, 1862) — South Africa: Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province
C. j. kenyensis Joicey & Talbot, 1925 — eastern and north-eastern Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania
C. j. kigomaensis van Someren, 1975 — Tanzania: north-west to the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika
C. j. mafiae Turlin & Lequeux, 1992 — Tanzania: Mafia Island
C. j. rex Henning, 1978 — southern Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and Gauteng provinces
C. j. rwandensis Plantrou, 1976 — western Rwanda, north-western Tanzania

References

"Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.

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.
Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31

External links

Images of Charaxes jahlusa argynnides Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
Images of Charaxes jahlusa ganalensis (Albertine Rift Project)
Images of C. jahlusa kenyensis (Albertine Rift Project)
Images of C. jahlusa kigomaensis (Albertine Rift Project)
Images of C. jahlusa rwandensis (Albertine Rift Project)
Charaxes jahlusa images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Charaxes jahlusa argynides images at BOLD
Charaxes jahlusa mafiae images at BOLD
Charaxes jahlusa pembana images at BOLD
Charaxes jahlusa rwandensis images at BOLD

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[funet-1] "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[Woodhall-2] Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.