Charaxes nichetes

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes

Similar Charaxes paphianus, Charaxes pythodoris, Charaxes doubledayi, Charaxes virilis, Charaxes anticlea

Charaxes nichetes, the Manx charaxes or water charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. The habitat consists of forests, low altitude woodland savanna and Brachystegia woodland.

Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing most of the year.

The larvae feed on Uapaca nitida, Uapaca kirkiana and Uapaca sansibarica.

Subspecies

C. n. nichetes (southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda: western and northern shores of Lake Victoria)

C. n. bouchei Plantrou, 1974 (Sierra Leone, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)

C. n. leoninus Butler, 1895 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)

C. n. leopardinus Plantrou, 1974 (Guinea, north-eastern Ivory Coast, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad)

C. n. pantherinus Rousseau-Decelle, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-eastern Zambia, north-western Tanzania)

C. n. ssese Turlin & Lequeux, 2002 (Uganda)

Taxonomy

Charaxes nichetes is the sole member of species group Charaxes nichetes.

References

Charaxes nichetes Wikipedia

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