Charaxes nichetes
Charaxes nichetes, the Manx charaxes or water charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola.[2] The habitat consists of forests, low altitude woodland savanna and Brachystegia woodland.
| Charaxes nichetes | |
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| C. n. nichetes from the CAR | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. nichetes |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes nichetes Grose-Smith, 1883[1] | |
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Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing most of the year.
The larvae feed on Uapaca nitida, Uapaca kirkiana and Uapaca sansibarica.
Subspecies
- C. n. nichetes (southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda: western and northern shores of Lake Victoria)
- C. n. bouchei Plantrou, 1974 (Sierra Leone, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
- C. n. leoninus Butler, 1895 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)
- C. n. leopardinus Plantrou, 1974 (Guinea, north-eastern Ivory Coast, Benin, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad)
- C. n. pantherinus Rousseau-Decelle, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-eastern Zambia, north-western Tanzania)
- C. n. ssese Turlin & Lequeux, 2002 (Uganda)
Taxonomy
Charaxes nichetes is the sole member of species group Charaxes nichetes.
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes nichetes. |
- "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, 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 32
External links
- Images of C. n. leoninus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. n. nichetes (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. n. pantherinus (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes nichetes images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- C. n. nichetes images at BOLD
- C. n. bouchei images at BOLD
- C. n. leoninus images at BOLD
- C. n. leopardinus images at BOLD
- C. n. pantherinus images at BOLD
- C. n. ssese images at BOLD
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