Charaxes anticlea

Charaxes anticlea
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. anticlea
Binomial name
Charaxes anticlea
(Drury, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio anticlea Drury, 1782
  • Papilio horatius Fabricius, 1793
  • Charaxes anticlea f. horatianus Stoneham, 1936
  • Charaxes anticlea reducta van Someren, 1971

Charaxes anticlea, the Small Flame-bordered Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests, including dry forests, somewhat degraded forests and dense riverine vegetation.

Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and sucking-trees.

The larvae feed on Acacia poetzi, Acacia pennata, Mezoneuron benthamianum, Acacia goetzei, Acacia brevispica, Mezoneuron welwitschianum and Mezoneuron angolense.

Description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 492 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies

Taxonomy

Charaxes anticlea is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles

Ecozone

Afrotropical ecozone

References

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