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Similar Charaxes etheocles, Charaxes pleione, Charaxes paphianus, Charaxes cedreatis, Charaxes zelica | ||
Charaxes anticlea, the small flame-bordered charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests, including dry forests, somewhat degraded forests and dense riverine vegetation.
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Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and sucking-trees.
The larvae feed on Acacia poetzi, Acacia pennata, Mezoneuron benthamianum, Acacia goetzei, Acacia brevispica, Mezoneuron welwitschianum and Mezoneuron angolense.
Description
A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 492 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])
Subspecies
Taxonomy
Charaxes anticlea is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles
Ecozone
Afrotropical ecozone