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Charaxes etheocles

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

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Similar
  
Charaxes paphianus, Charaxes anticlea, Charaxes numenes, Charaxes cedreatis, Charaxes viola

Charaxes etheocles, the demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

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The larvae feed on Scutia myrtina, Celtis durandii, Griffonia simplicifolia, Albizia gummifera, Celtis gomphophylla, Bandeiraea, Cathormion, Dalbergia and Entada species.

Subspecies

  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western and eastern Nigeria)
  • Charaxes etheocles carpenteri van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (central and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, north-western Tanzania, northern Zambia)
  • Charaxes etheocles evansi van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (Kenya: highlands west of the Rift Valley) may be a full species
  • Charaxes etheocles ochracea van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (Nigeria, southern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, possibly Angola) perhaps a full species

    • Taxonomy

    Charaxes etheocles is a member of the species group Charaxes etheocles. The supposed clade members are:

    Clade 1

  • Charaxes anticlea
  • Charaxes opinatus
  • Charaxes baumanni
  • Charaxes thysi
  • Charaxes hildebrandti
  • Charaxes blanda

    • Clade 2

  • Charaxes etheocles nominate very variable
  • Charaxes kheili
  • Charaxes guderiana
  • Charaxes ethalion

    • Unplaced but in etheocles clade

  • Charaxes northcotti
  • Charaxes pembanus
  • Charaxes usambarae
  • Charaxes contrarius
  • Charaxes petersi
  • Charaxes marieps
  • Charaxes karkloof
  • Charaxes martini
  • Charaxes gallagheri
  • Charaxes alpinus
  • Charaxes nyikensis
  • Charaxes mccleeryi
  • Charaxes grahamei
  • Charaxes aubyni
  • Charaxes chepalunga
  • Charaxes virilis
  • Charaxes fulgurata
  • Charaxes berkeleyi
  • Charaxes baileyi
  • Charaxes manica
  • Charaxes pseudophaeus
  • Charaxes chintechi
  • Charaxes protomanica
  • Charaxes ethalion very variable
  • Charaxes pondoensis
  • Charaxes viola very variable
  • Charaxes phaeus
  • Charaxes vansoni
  • Charaxes loandae
  • Charaxes variata
  • Charaxes brainei
  • Charaxes cedreatis
  • Charaxes mafuga

    • For a full list of this species group see Vingerhoedt African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains

    Ecozone

    Afrotropical ecozone

    References

    Charaxes etheocles Wikipedia
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