Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes | |
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Charaxes penricei, the scarce savanna charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of savanna, especially Brachystegia woodland.
Contents
The larvae feed on Entada species and Securidaca longipedunculata.
Description
The original description written by Walter Rothschild is available on line through Google Books. See page 460 of "A Monograph of Charaxes and the Allied Prionopterous Genera" from Novitates Zoologicae volume VII, number 3, December 1900.
Subspecies
Taxonomy
Charaxes etesipe is a member of the species group Charaxes etesipe.
The clade members are:
References
Charaxes penricei Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA