Charaxes baumanni

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes

Charaxes baumanni, the little charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sudan, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of open forests and woodland.

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and also feed on animal scats. Adults are on wing year round.

The larvae feed on Acacia brevispica, Acacia seyal, Acacia brevispica, Pterolobium stellatum and Caesalpinia decapetala.

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 491-492 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])

Subspecies

C. b. baumanni (north-eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya)

C. b. bamptoni van Someren, 1974 (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal)

C. b. bwamba van Someren, 1971 (Uganda: Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu)

C. b. didingensis van Someren, 1971 (Sudan: south to the Didinga Mountains, northern Uganda, northern Kenya)

C. b. granti Turlin, 1989 (eastern Tanzania)

C. b. interposita van Someren, 1971 (western Kenya, eastern and central Uganda, north-western Tanzania)

C. b. nyiro Collins & Larsen, 1991 (Kenya: north to Mount Nyiro)

C. b. selousi Trimen, 1894 (southern and eastern Zimbabwe, central Zambia)

C. b. tenuis van Someren, 1971 (northern Tanzania, Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)

C. b. whytei Butler, 1894 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern and western Tanzania, northern and eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique)

Taxonomy

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

Ecozone

Afrotropical ecozone

References

Charaxes baumanni Wikipedia

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