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Charaxes lactetinctus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

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Charaxes lactetinctus, the blue patch charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and possibly Sudan. The habitat consists of savanna, including dry thorn-bush savanna.

Contents

The larvae feed on Syzygium cordatum and Maesopsis eminii.

Taxonomy

Charaxes lucretius group

The members are:

  • Charaxes lucretius
  • Charaxes octavus
  • Charaxes odysseus
  • Charaxes lactetinctus

    • Subspecies

  • Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus (western Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western and north-western Kenya)
  • Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi Le Cerf, 1927 (south-western Ethiopia and possibly Sudan)

    • References

    Charaxes lactetinctus Wikipedia
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