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Charaxes pollux

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

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Similar
  
Charaxes eudoxus, Charaxes druceanus, Charaxes nichetes, Charaxes castor, Charaxes anticlea

Charaxes pollux, the black-bordered charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Angola, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forests, gallery forests and heavy woodland.

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Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and sucking-trees. Adults are probably on wing year round.

The larvae feed on Sorindeia species, Bersama abyssinica, Deinbollia kilimandsharica, Deinbollia borbonica, Fluggia microcarpa, Securinega virosa and Fluggia virosa.

Subspecies

  • C. p. pollux (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, northern Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern and north-western Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, southern Sudan, Uganda, western and central Kenya, western Tanzania)
  • C. p. annamariae Turlin, 1998 (Bioko)
  • C. p. gazanus van Someren, 1967 (Mozambique: west to area between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers), eastern Zimbabwe)
  • C. p. geminus Rothschild, 1900 (Malawi, Zambia: east of the Luangwa Valley), southern and eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya)
  • C. p. maua van Someren, 1967 (northern Tanzania)
  • C. p. mira Ackery, 1995 (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • C. p. piersoni Collins, 1990 (Zanzibar)
  • Taxonomy

    The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:

  • Charaxes jasius
  • Charaxes pelias – smaller than jasius
  • Charaxes hansali
  • Charaxes castor
  • Charaxes brutus – dark with white bands
  • Charaxes andara – Madagascar
  • Charaxes ansorgei
  • Charaxes phoebus
  • Charaxes pollux
  • Charaxes druceanus
  • Charaxes phraortes – Madagascar, close to next
  • Charaxes andranodorus – close to last
  • Charaxes eudoxus
  • Charaxes richelmanni
  • References

    Charaxes pollux Wikipedia