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Charaxes protoclea

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Scientific name
  
Charaxes protoclea

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Charaxes castor, Charaxes etesipe, Charaxes lucretius, Charaxes tiridates, Charaxes boueti

Charaxes protoclea, the flame-bordered emperor or flame-bordered charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found Subsaharan Africa.

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The wingspan is 65–70 mm in males and 75–95 mm in females. Has two broods from October to November and from February to June.

Larvae feed on Afzelia quanzensis, Brachystegia spiciformis, and Julbernardia globiflora.

Taxonomy

Charaxes cynthia group

The group members are

  • Charaxes cynthia similar to Charaxes lucretius
  • Charaxes protoclea
  • Charaxes boueti close to next
  • Charaxes lasti close to last
  • Charaxes alticola

    • Subspecies

    Listed alphabetically.

  • C. p. azota (Hewitson, 1877) (Kenya, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal)
  • C. p. catenaria Rousseau-Decelle, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Zambia)
  • C. p. cedrici Canu, 1989 (Bioko)
  • C. p. nothodes Jordan, 1911 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • C. p. protoclea Feisthamel, 1850 (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
  • C. p. protonothodes van Someren, 1971 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, north-western Angola, north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo)

    • References

    Charaxes protoclea Wikipedia
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