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Charaxes eupale

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

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Similar
  
Charaxes lucretius, Charaxes pleione, Charaxes tiridates, Charaxes etesipe, Charaxes protoclea

Charaxes eupale, the common green 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 Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

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

The green colouration is produced by pigments as opposed to being produced structurally, which is common in most green butterflies.

Subspecies

  • Charaxes eupale eupale (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria)
  • Charaxes eupale latimargo Joicey & Talbot, 1921 (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
  • Charaxes eupale veneris White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi, Tanzania, northern Zambia)

    • Similar species

    Charaxes eupale 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 eupale Wikipedia
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