Charaxes numenes

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Charaxes numenes
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
  • Nymphalis numenes Hewitson, 1859
  • Charaxes numenes f. obsolescens Stoneham, 1931
  • Charaxes numenes laticatena Le Cerf, 1932
  • Charaxes albimaculatus van Someren, 1972

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.

Forest habitat in Tanzania

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

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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