Charaxes ocellatus

Charaxes ocellatus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Hans Fruhstorfer in 1896. It is endemic to the Lesser Sunda Islands in the Australasian realm (close to the Wallace line).[2]

Charaxes ocellatus
Charaxes ocellatus male - Sumba island
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. ocellatus
Binomial name
Charaxes ocellatus
Synonyms
  • Charaxes sumbanus Rothschild, 1896
  • Charaxes sumbanus sambavanus Rothschild, 1896

Subspecies

  • C. o. ocellatus (Lombok)
  • C. o. sumbanus Rothschild, 1896 (Sumba)
  • C. o. sambavanus Rothschild, 1896 (Sumbawa)
  • C. o. florensis Rothschild, 1900 (Flores)
  • C. o. straatmani Nishiyama & Ohtani, 1981 (Alor)

References

  1. Fruhstorfer, 1896 Neue Lepidopteren aus Lombok. I-IV Soc. Ent. 11
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9


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