Charaxes viola

Charaxes viola
Charaxes viola picta male from CAR
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. viola
Binomial name
Charaxes viola
Butler, 1866[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes chiron Staudinger, 1886
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. picta Rothschild, 1900
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. vansomereni Poulton, 1926
  • Charaxes etheocles f. splendens Rousseau-Decelle, 1938
  • Charaxes etheocles f. illuminata Rousseau-Decelle, 1938

Charaxes viola, the Savanna Demon Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.[2] The habitat consists of dry savanna and dry forests.

Adults are attracted to fallen mangoes.

The larvae feed on Entada gigas, Acacia mellifera, Albizia adianthifolia, Albizia coriaria, Entada abyssinica, Acacia amythethophylla, Albizia gummifera and Entada sudanica.

Description

Charaxes viola, sp. n. (PI. XXXVI. fig. 4.) Female. Upperside—front wings brown ; outer margin reddish ;a broad ferruginous band near the hind margin, interrupted above by a brown patch and by the nervures. Hind wings, basal half brown, apical half white tinted with blue-green ; outer margin brown, with orange upper edging, green below the outer tail ; a submarginal row of violaceous lunules ; two black spots at the anal angle. Underside only differs from C. ethalion in the brighter red of the submarginal lunules, in the central white band being only indicated by a paler shade of brown, and the less distinct black markings.[3]

Taxonomy

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

Subspecies

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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