Charaxes eudoxus

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

Similar Charaxes ansorgei, Charaxes lycurgus, Charaxes cedreatis, Charaxes druceanus, Charaxes pollux

Charaxes eudoxus, the Eudoxus charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests, including gallery and riverine forests.

The larvae feed on Schefflera, Syzygium (including S. cordatum and S. guineense) and Garcinia species.

Subspecies

C. e. eudoxus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)

C. e. amaurus Poulton, 1929 (western Kenya)

C. e. biokoensis Canu, 1989 (Bioko)

C. e. boersmana Plantrou, 1980 (Nigeria: north to central)

C. e. cabacus Jordan, 1925 (Uganda: north-west shores of Lake Victoria)

C. e. goubandana Nicat, 2002 (Guinea)

C. e. imatongensis Plantrou, 1982 (Sudan: south to Imatong Mountains)

C. e. katerae Carpenter, 1937 (Uganda: south to the western shores of Lake Victoria, north-western Tanzania)

C. e. lequeuxi Plantrou, 1982 (Rwanda, Burundi)

C. e. mechowi Rothschild, 1900 (eastern Nigeria, south-western Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, north-western Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic)

C. e. mitchelli Plantrou & Howarth, 1977 (Zambia)

C. e. raffaellae Plantrou, 1982 (north-western Tanzania, possibly Burundi)

C. e. zambiae van Someren, 1970 (Zambia: eastern side of the upper Luangwa Valley)

Taxonomy

The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:

Charaxes jasius

Charaxes pelias – smaller than jasius

Charaxes hansali

Charaxes castor

Charaxes brutus – dark with white bands

Charaxes andara – Madagascar

Charaxes ansorgei

Charaxes phoebus

Charaxes pollux

Charaxes druceanus

Charaxes phraortes – Madagascar, close to next

Charaxes andranodorus – close to last

Charaxes eudoxus

Charaxes richelmanni

References

Charaxes eudoxus Wikipedia

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