Charaxes pleione

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

Similar Charaxes paphianus, Charaxes anticlea, Charaxes boueti, Charaxes numenes, Charaxes ameliae

Charaxes pleione, the square-winged red charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests and woodland savanna.

The larvae feed on Acacia pennata and Acacia brevispica.

Subspecies

C. p. pleione (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria)

C. p. bebra Rothschild, 1900 (north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

C. p. congoensis Plantrou, 1989 (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo)

C. p. delvauxi Turlin, 1987 (south-western Rwanda)

C. p. oriens Plantrou, 1989 (coast of Kenya, eastern Tanzania)

Charaxes pleione is a member of the species group Charaxes paphianus. The supposed clade members are:

Charaxes paphianus - nominate

Charaxes pleione

Afrotropical ecozone

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