Charaxes hildebrandti

Charaxes hildebrandti

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. hildebrandti
Binomial name
*Charaxes hildebrandti* (Dewitz, 1879)^[1]
Synonyms
Nymphalis hildebrandti Dewitz, 1879 Charaxes hildebrandtii Charaxes galba Distant, 1879 Charaxes talagugae Holland, 1886 Charaxes hidebrandti hildebrandti f. michelae Plantrou, 1980

Charaxes hildebrandti, Hildebrandt’s Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Zambia.^[2] Its habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

The larvae feed on Dyboscia species.

Subspecies

Charaxes hildebrandti hildebrandti (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, northern and central Democratic Republic of Congo, western Uganda)
Charaxes hildebrandti gillesi Plantrou, 1973 (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
Charaxes hildebrandti katangensis Talbot, 1928 (eastern and southern Democratic Republic of Congo, north-western Zambia, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)

Charaxes hildebrandti is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles

Afrotropical ecozone

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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.