Charaxes zingha
Shining red charaxes | |
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male upper side | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. zingha |
Binomial name | |
Charaxes zingha (Stoll, 1780)[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Charaxes zingha, the Shining red charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and sometimes gallery forests and coastal scrubland.
The larvae feed on Hugonia - Hugonia platsepala and Hugonia castaneifolia.
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Short description
Male: The upperside ground colour is black. There is a triangular orange-red patch on the forewing contiguous with the orange-red basal area of the black hindwing, a marginal row of red/yellow spots and four pale spots at the tornus.
The underside of the forewing is grey-yellow with a peach-pink area extending from the disc to the dorsum. There are 5-6 rounded black spots. The very colorful hindwing has a whitish or reddish brown ground color with numerous black markings and stains so that it appears almost netted; the anal lobe is colored yellow on the edge.
Full description
A full description is given by *Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 452 for terms see Volume 5:545-601
Taxonomy
Charaxes zingha is the sole member of the Charaxes zingha species group (subgenus Zingha)
Ecozone
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Charaxes zingha |
- ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487.
External links
- Images of C. zingha Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Pteron images
- Collection privée d'Eric Vingerhoedt
- Images at Bold
- Lepidoptera pro images