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Charaxes dilutus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

Charaxes dilutus

Similar
  
Charaxes baumanni, Charaxes ansorgei, Charaxes guderiana, Charaxes pythodoris

Charaxes dilutus is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Angola. The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

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The larvae feed on Albizia gummifera, Albizia adianthifolia and Scutia species.

Full description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 512 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])

Subspecies

  • Charaxes dilutus dilutus (Malawi, Zambia, eastern Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern and western Tanzania)
  • Charaxes dilutus amanica Collins, 1990 (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi: west-central to the Dzelanyama Range) synonym for Charaxes eupale
  • Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974 (central Kenya, Uganda: south-west to Kigezi, Sudan) synonym for Charaxes eupale

    • Similar species

    Charaxes dilutus is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade). The clade members are

  • Charaxes subornatus
  • Charaxes eupale
  • Charaxes dilutus
  • Charaxes montis
  • Charaxes minor
  • Charaxes schiltzei
  • Charaxes schultzei
  • Charaxes virescens

    • Ecozone

    Afrotropical

    References

    Charaxes dilutus Wikipedia
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