Charaxes lactetinctus

Charaxes lactetinctus, the blue patch charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and possibly Sudan.[2] The habitat consists of savanna, including dry thorn-bush savanna.

Charaxes lactetinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. lactetinctus
Binomial name
Charaxes lactetinctus
Karsch, 1892[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes lactetinctus f. jacksonianus van Someren, 1936
  • Charaxes lactetinctus busogus van Someren, 1972
  • Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi f. brunneus Carpenter, 1935

The larvae feed on Syzygium cordatum and Maesopsis eminii.

Taxonomy

Charaxes lucretius group

The members are:

Subspecies
  • Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus (western Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western and north-western Kenya)
  • Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi Le Cerf, 1927 (south-western Ethiopia and possibly Sudan)

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. 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.


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