Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes | |
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Similar Charaxes hadrianus, Charaxes protoclea, Charaxes cedreatis, Charaxes kheili, Charaxes pythodoris | ||
Charaxes kahldeni is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in northern Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Uganda and southern Sudan. The habitat consists of forests.
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Description
Very similar to Charaxes zoolina. Hindwing underside in cell 1c with a black longitudinal stripe, which extends almost to the anal angle and joins with the similar median strip.[1]
Taxonomy
Charaxes kahldeni is a member of the species group Charaxes zoolina. The clade members are:
The group differs from all the others in Charaxes in the male having a tail on vein 2, but the female having two long tails on veins 2 and 4. There are two different forms, one with black markings on a greenish-white base colour (wet-season form) and one with reddish-brown markings on red-yellow whitish colour (dry-season form). These forms can be from eggs of the same female.