Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Charaxes | |
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Similar Charaxes doubledayi, Charaxes boueti, Charaxes catachrous, Charaxes pleione, Charaxes zelica | ||
Charaxes porthos, the Porthos untailed charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and drier forests.
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Adults are attracted to fermented bananas.
Subspecies
Taxonomy
Charaxes porthos is a member of the species group Charaxes lycurgus. The supposed clade members are:
Clade 1
Clade 2
References
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