Charaxes bernardus

Tawny Rajah
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. bernardus
Binomial name
Charaxes bernardus
(Fabricius) 1793

The Tawny Rajah (Charaxes bernardus) is a butterfly found in India that belongs to the Rajahs and Nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae group of the Brush-footed butterflies family.

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Habits

It has been recorded as a migrant in South India and is known to mud-puddle.[1]

Food plants

Aglaia lawii.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Mathew, G.; Binoy, C.F. (2002). "Migration of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) in the New Amarambalam Reserve Forest of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve". Zoos' Print Journal 17 (8): 844–847. http://www.zoosprint.org/ZooPrintJournal/2002/August/844-847.pdf. 
  2. ^ Kunte, K. 2006. Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 103(1):119-121

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