Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes | |
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Charaxes defulvata is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found on the island of São Tomé. The habitat consists of forests. The species of butterfly was named by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1926.
Taxonomy
The species is often treated as a subspecies of Charaxes varanes.
It is a member of the Charaxes varanes group. Subgenus Stonehamia (Hadrodontes)
The group members are:
References
Charaxes defulvata Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA