Charaxes ameliae

Charaxes ameliae
Charaxes ameliae male from CAR
Charaxes ameliae female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. ameliae
Binomial name
Charaxes ameliae Doumet, 1861[1]
Synonyms
Charaxes regius Aurivillius, 1889

Charaxes ameliae, the Blue-spotted Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and Brachystegia woodland.

The larvae feed on Brachystegia spiciformis, Julbernardia globiflora, Albizia adianthifolia and Baikiaea insignis.

Charaxes ameliae figured in Seitz Fauna Africana

Description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 391-394 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

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 ^[3]

Subspecies

• Charaxes ameliae ameliae (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
• Charaxes ameliae amelina Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Tanzania: Kigoma, Malawi, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba)
• Charaxes ameliae doumeti Henning, 1989 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
• Charaxes ameliae victoriae van Someren, 1972 (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)

References

1. Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
3. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013".

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31
• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)215-264.

External links

• Images of C. ameliae ameliae Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Charaxes ameliae images at Charaxes page Consortium for the Barcode of Life subspecies and forms
• African Butterfly Database Range map via search