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Charaxes violetta

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Scientific name
  
Charaxes violetta

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Charaxes

Rank
  
Subspecies

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Similar
  
Charaxes bohemani, Charaxes xiphares, Charaxes pythodoris, Charaxes cithaeron, Charaxes mixtus

Charaxes violetta, the violet-spotted emperor or violet-spotted charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Africa.

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The wingspan is 65–70 mm for males and 75–85 mm for females. Species is double brooded from August to October and April to June.

Larvae feed on Blighia unijugata) and Deinbollia species.

Full description

  • Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae volume 7:287-524. [1] page 372 for terms see volume 5:545-601 [2].

    • Taxonomy

    Charaxes tiridates group.

    The supposed clade members are:

  • Charaxes tiridates
  • Charaxes numenes - similar to next
  • Charaxes bipunctatus - similar to last
  • Charaxes violetta
  • Charaxes fuscus
  • Charaxes mixtus
  • Charaxes bubastis
  • Charaxes albimaculatus
  • Charaxes barnsi
  • Charaxes bohemani
  • Charaxes schoutedeni
  • Charaxes monteiri
  • Charaxes smaragdalis
  • Charaxes xiphares
  • Charaxes cithaeron
  • Charaxes nandina
  • Charaxes imperialis
  • Charaxes ameliae
  • Charaxes pythodoris
  • ? Charaxes overlaeti

    • For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.

    Subspecies

    Listed alphabetically:

  • C. v. maritima van Someren, 1966 (coast of Kenya, Tanzania: north-east to the coast)
  • C. v. melloni Fox, 1963 (Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, Malawi, eastern Tanzania)
  • C. v. meru van Someren, 1966 (Kenya: north-eastern slopes of Mount Kenya and in the Njombeni Hills)
  • C. v. violetta Grose-Smith, 1885 (southern Mozambique, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal)

    • Ecozone

    Afrotropical ecozone

    References

    Charaxes violetta Wikipedia
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