Charaxes ameliae

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Charaxes ameliae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. ameliae
Binomial name
Charaxes ameliae
Doumet, 1861[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes regius Aurivillius, 1889

Charaxes ameliae, the Blue-spotted Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.[2] The habitat consists of forests and Brachystegia woodland.

The larvae feed on Brachystegia spiciformis, Julbernardia globiflora, Albizia adianthifolia and Baikiaea insignis.

Description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 391-394 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Taxonomy

Charaxes tiridates group

the supposed clade members are

For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013 [3]

Subspecies

  • Charaxes ameliae ameliae (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
  • Charaxes ameliae amelina Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Tanzania: Kigoma, Malawi, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba)
  • Charaxes ameliae doumeti Henning, 1989 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • Charaxes ameliae victoriae van Someren, 1972 (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

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