Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Charaxes achaemenes | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes Rank Subspecies | |
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Similar Charaxes bohemani, Charaxes guderiana, Charaxes druceanus, Charaxes pythodoris, Charaxes eudoxus | ||
Charaxes achaemenes, the bushveld emperor or bush charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found across Africa.
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The wingspan is 55–60 mm in males and 60–70 mm in females. Flight period is year-round.
Larvae feed on Pterocarpus rotundifolius, Pterocarpus angolensis, Xanthocercis zambesiaca, Dalbergia boehmii, Piliostigma thonningii, Pterocarpus erinaceus, Dalbergia nitidula, and Brachystegia spiciformis.
Description
A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan (1900). Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 460-463 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])
Subspecies
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Taxonomy
Charaxes achaemenes is a member of the species group Charaxes etesipe
The clade members are
References
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