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Charaxes hildebrandti

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

Charaxes hildebrandti

Similar
  
Charaxes anticlea, Charaxes virilis, Charaxes doubledayi, Charaxes zelica, Charaxes pythodoris

Charaxes hildebrandti, the Hildebrandt's charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Zambia. Its habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

Contents

The larvae feed on Dyboscia species.

Subspecies

  • Charaxes hildebrandti hildebrandti (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, northern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda)
  • Charaxes hildebrandti gillesi Plantrou, 1973 (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
  • Charaxes hildebrandti katangensis Talbot, 1928 (eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Zambia, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)

    • Taxonomy

    Charaxes hildebrandti is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

    Ecozone

    Afrotropical ecozone

    References

    Charaxes hildebrandti Wikipedia
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