Charaxes boueti

Charaxes boueti
Fig. 2
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. boueti
Binomial name
Charaxes boueti
Feisthamel, 1850[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes boueti ghanaensis Rousseau-Decelle and Johnston, 1957
  • Charaxes boueti f. irradians Turlin, 1998

Charaxes boueti, the Bamboo Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda.[2] The habitat consists of forests, woodland and savanna.

The larvae feed on Arundinaria alpinus, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, Bambusa vulgaris and Afzelia species.

Description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 408 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Taxonomy

Charaxes cynthia group

The group members are

Subspecies

References

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