Charaxes jahlusa

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Charaxes jahlusa		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes Rank Subspecies

Similar Charaxes guderiana, Charaxes zoolina, Charaxes achaemenes, Charaxes bohemani, Charaxes baumanni

Charaxes jahlusa, the pearl-spotted emperor or pearl spotted charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in southern Africa.

The wingspan is 43–56 mm in males and 50–62 mm in females. Flight period is from October to March, some species are year-round.

Larvae feed on Pappea capensis, Dalbergia melanoxylon, and Haplocoelum foliosum.

Taxonomy

Charaxes jahlusa is the sole member of the Charaxes jahlusa species group

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

C. j. argynnides Westwood, 1864 (southern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland)

C. j. ganalensis Carpenter, 1937 (southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda, western Kenya)

C. j. jahlusa (Trimen, 1862) (South Africa: Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province)

C. j. kenyensis Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (eastern and north-eastern Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania)

C. j. kigomaensis van Someren, 1975 (Tanzania: north-west to the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika)

C. j. mafiae Turlin & Lequeux, 1992 (Tanzania: Mafia Island)

C. j. rex Henning, 1978 (southern Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, South Africa: Limpopo Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, Gauteng)

C. j. rwandensis Plantrou, 1976 (western Rwanda, north-western Tanzania)

References

Charaxes jahlusa Wikipedia

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