Charaxes phoebus

Charaxes phoebus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. phoebus
Binomial name
Charaxes phoebus
Butler, 1866[1]

Charaxes phoebus is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of montane forests and woodland.

The larvae feed on Bersama abyssinica.

Description

Illustrated at bottom, left, in Butler monograph

Charaxes phoebus, sp. n. (PI. XXXVL fig. 2.)

Upper side

Front wings ferruginous, paler just beyond the middle, with a broad submarginal black band along the outer margin; apical part of submarginal edge intersected with black at the nervures; a triangular black spot, its base resting upon the first subcostal nervule near the apex; a black elongate spot closing the cell; two spots, one above the cell, the other halfway between the subapical spot and the end of the cell; two black spots placed obliquely just below the end of the cell. Hind wings as above, but without any spots,and with black marginal edge. Body ferruginous.

Underside

Reddish olivaceous, basal half curiously marked with silvery spots and streaks with dark centres; central band silvery, very narrow, tapering from the inner margin of hind wing near the anal angle to the front margin of anterior wing near the apex. Front wings with a submarginal row of eight dusky black spots between the nervules along the outer margin; a row of six dusky spots on the central band. Hind wings with a submarginal olivaceous band varied with silver; anal angle ochreous, enclosing a violaceous spot.
Hab. Abyssinia. B.M.[3]

Taxonomy

The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:

References

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  1. Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  3. Butler, A.G. (1866a): Monograph of the species of Charaxes, a genus of diurnal Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865:622-639.

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