Charaxes pollux
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. pollux |
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| Charaxes pollux (Cramer, 1775)[1] | |
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Charaxes pollux, the Black-bordered Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of forests, gallery forests and heavy woodland.
Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and sucking-trees. Adults are probably on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Sorindeia species, Bersama abyssinica, Deinbollia kilimandsharica, Deinbollia borbonica, Fluggia microcarpa, Securinega virosa and Fluggia virosa.
Subspecies
- C. p. pollux (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, northern Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, northern and north-western Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, southern Sudan, Uganda, western and central Kenya, western Tanzania)
- C. p. annamariae Turlin, 1998 (Bioko)
- C. p. gazanus van Someren, 1967 (Mozambique: west to area between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers), eastern Zimbabwe)
- C. p. geminus Rothschild, 1900 (Malawi, Zambia: east of the Luangwa Valley), southern and eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya)
- C. p. maua van Someren, 1967 (northern Tanzania)
- C. p. mira Ackery, 1995 (north-eastern Tanzania)
- C. p. piersoni Collins, 1990 (Zanzibar)
Taxonomy
The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:
- Charaxes jasius
- Charaxes pelias – smaller than jasius
- Charaxes hansali
- Charaxes castor
- Charaxes brutus – dark with white bands
- Charaxes andara – Madagascar
- Charaxes ansorgei
- Charaxes phoebus
- Charaxes pollux
- Charaxes druceanus
- Charaxes phraortes – Madagascar, close to next
- Charaxes andranodorus – close to last
- Charaxes eudoxus
- Charaxes richelmanni
References
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- ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
External links
- Images of C. pollux gazanus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. pollux maua (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. pollux mira (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. pollux piersoni (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. pollux pollux (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes pollux pollux images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes pollux annamariae images at BOLD
- Charaxes pollux geminus images at BOLD
- Charaxes pollux gazanus images at BOLD
- Charaxes pollux gemius images at BOLD
- Charaxes pollux maua images at BOLD
- Charaxes pollux piersoni images at BOLD