Charaxes pleione
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| Charaxes pleione from CAR | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. pleione |
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| Charaxes pleione (Godart, 1824)[1] | |
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Charaxes pleione, the Square-winged Red Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland savanna.
The larvae feed on Acacia pennata and Acacia brevispica.
Subspecies
- Charaxes pleione pleione (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria)
- Charaxes pleione bebra Rothschild, 1900 (north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
- Charaxes pleione congoensis Plantrou, 1989 (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Charaxes pleione delvauxi Turlin, 1987 (south-western Rwanda)
- Charaxes pleione oriens Plantrou, 1989 (coast of Kenya, eastern Tanzania)
Taxonomy
Charaxes pleione is a member of the species group Charaxes paphianus. The supposed clade members are
- Charaxes paphianus Nominate
- Charaxes pleione
Ecozone
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Charaxes pleione |
- ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487.
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31
External links
- Images of C. pleione bebra Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. pleione delvauxi (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. pleione pleione (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes pleione pleione images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes pleione bebra images at BOLD
- Charaxes pleione congoensis images at BOLD
- Charaxes pleione delvauxi images at BOLD
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