Charaxes pleione
Charaxes pleione, the common orange charaxes, or square-winged red charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland savanna.
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| C. p. congoensis specimen from CAR | |
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| C. p. pleione in Bobiri Forest, Ghana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. pleione |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes pleione | |
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The larvae feed on Acacia pennata and Acacia brevispica.
Subspecies
- C. p. pleione — Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria
- C. p. bebra Rothschild, 1900 — north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania
- C. p. congoensis Plantrou, 1989 — south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- C. p. delvauxi Turlin, 1987 — south-western Rwanda
- C. p. oriens Plantrou, 1989 — coast of Kenya, eastern Tanzania
Taxonomy
Charaxes pleione is a member of the species group Charaxes paphianus. The supposed clade members are:
- Charaxes paphianus - nominate
- Charaxes pleione
Realm
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes pleione. |
- "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, 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 C. p. bebra Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. p. delvauxi (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. p. pleione (Albertine Rift Project)
- C. p. pleione images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- C. p. bebra images at BOLD
- C. p. congoensis images at BOLD
- C. p. delvauxi images at BOLD
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