Charaxes viola
| Charaxes viola | |
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| 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] | |
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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
- Charaxes viola viola (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western and northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad)
- Charaxes viola picta van Someren & Jackson, 1952 (eastern Nigeria, mountains of Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, southern Sudan, northern Uganda, north-western Kenya)
References
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- ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- ↑ 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.
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)75-166.
External links
- Charaxes viola diversiforma viridicaerulea Royal Museum for Central Africa
- Images of C. viola picta Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. viola diversiforma Albertine Rift Project)
- Images at Bold Charaxes viola
- Bold images Charaxes viola diversiforma
- Bold images Charaxes viola picta
- Bold images Charaxes viola viola