Charaxes numenes
Charaxes numenes | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. numenes |
Binomial name | |
Charaxes numenes (Hewitson, 1859)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Charaxes numenes, the Lesser Blue Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen lowland forests.
The larvae feed on Hugonia platysepela, Grewia mollis, Grewia forbesi, Grewia trichocarpa, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Erythrina abyssinica, Erythrina excelsa, Allophylus, Blighia unijugata and Phialodiscus unijugatus.
Taxonomy
Charaxes tiridates group
the supposed clade members are
- Charaxes tiridates
- Charaxes numenes similar to next
- Charaxes bipunctatus similar to last
- Charaxes violetta
- Charaxes fuscus
- Charaxes mixtus
- Charaxes bubastis
- Charaxes albimaculatus
- Charaxes barnsi
- Charaxes bohemani
- Charaxes schoutedeni
- Charaxes monteiri
- Charaxes smaragdalis
- Charaxes xiphares
- Charaxes cithaeron
- Charaxes nandina
- Charaxes imperialis
- Charaxes ameliae
- Charaxes pythodoris
- ? Charaxes overlaeti
For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013 [3]
Subspecies
- Charaxes numenes numenes (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes numenes aequatorialis van Someren, 1972 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Central African Republic, southern Sudan, Uganda, western Kenya, western Tanzania)
- Charaxes numenes malabo Turlin, 1998 (Bioko)
- Charaxes numenes neumanni Rothschild, 1902 (southern and western Ethiopia)
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Museum specimen ♂ dorsal side
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Museum specimen ♂ △ - Ventral side
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Museum specimen ♀ dorsal side
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Museum specimen ♀ △ - Ventral side
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Charaxes numenes |
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)215-264. also as Charaxes albimaculatus
External links
- Images of C. numenes aequatorialis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. numenes numenes (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes numenes neumanni images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes numenes aequatorialis at BOLD