Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes | |
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Similar Charaxes tiridates, Charaxes bipunctatus, Charaxes pythodoris, Charaxes imperialis, Charaxes etheocles | ||
Charaxes numenes, the lesser blue charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. The habitat consists of evergreen lowland forests.
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The larvae feed on Hugonia platysepela, Grewia mollis, Grewia forbesi, Grewia trichocarpa, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Erythrina abyssinica, Erythrina excelsa, Allophylus, Blighia unijugata and Phialodiscus unijugatus.
Taxonomy
Charaxes tiridates group.
The supposed clade members are:
For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.