Genus Charaxes Rank Subspecies | ||
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Similar Charaxes protoclea, Charaxes brutus, Charaxes candiope, Charaxes etesipe, Charaxes varanes | ||
Charaxes castor, the giant emperor or giant charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found throughout the Afrotropical ecozone below the Sahel.
Contents
The wingspan is 75–85 mm in males and 85–105 mm in females. The flight period is year-round but more common in late summer to autumn.
Description
A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 436 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])
Life history
Larvae feed on Bridelia micrantha, Afzelia quanzensis, Tragia spp., Gymnosporia spp., Maytenus senegalensis, Schotia brachypetala, Bridelia micrantha and Cassia fistula.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.
Taxonomy
The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:
References
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