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.
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Taxonomy
The members of the Charaxes jasius group are: