Charaxes lactetinctus

Charaxes lactetinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. lactetinctus
Binomial name
Charaxes lactetinctus Karsch, 1892[1]
Synonyms
Charaxes lactetinctus f. jacksonianus van Someren, 1936 Charaxes lactetinctus busogus van Someren, 1972 Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi f. brunneus Carpenter, 1935

Charaxes lactetinctus, the Blue Patch Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and possibly Sudan.^[2] The habitat consists of savanna, including dry thorn-bush savanna.

The larvae feed on Syzygium cordatum and Maesopsis eminii.

Taxonomy

Charaxes lucretius group

The members are

• Charaxes lucretius
• Charaxes octavus
• Charaxes odysseus
• Charaxes lactetinctus

Subspecies

• Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus (western Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western and north-western Kenya)
• Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi Le Cerf, 1927 (south-western Ethiopia and possibly Sudan)

References

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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.

External links

• Images of C. lactetinctus lactetinctus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi images at BOLD