Charaxes nobilis
Charaxes nobilis, the noble white charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. The species was first described by Herbert Druce in 1873. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.
Lowland forest habitat in the Central African Republic
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. nobilis |
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Taxonomy
Charaxes nobilis group.
The supposed clade members are:
- Charaxes nobilis very like next
- Charaxes superbus very like last
Subspecies
- Charaxes nobilis nobilis (southern and eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda)
- Charaxes nobilis claudei le Moult, 1933 (north-western Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, south-western Nigeria) Raised to a full species by Eric Vingerhoedt.[3]
- Charaxes nobilis rosaemariae Rousseau-Decelle, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba, Shaba)
References
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- Notes
- Savela, Markku (March 23, 2019). "Charaxes nobilis Druce, 1873". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 23, 2019.
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
- Sources
- 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
- Charaxes.be/systematic Nominate
- Charaxes.be/systematic Subspecies.
External links
- Images of C. nobilis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. nobilis rosaemariae (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes nobilis images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes nobilis nobilis images at BOLD
- Charaxes nobilis claudei images at BOLD
- Charaxes nobilis rosemariae images
- Charaxes claudei images at BOLD
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