Charaxes bipunctatus

Charaxes bipunctatus, the two-spot blue charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and sub-montane forests at altitudes between 1,200 and 1,500 meters.

Charaxes bipunctatus
Male C. b. ugandensis from the CAR
Female C. b. ugandensis from Kenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. bipunctatus
Binomial name
Charaxes bipunctatus Rothschild, 1894[1]
Synonyms
Charaxes bipunctatus johnstoni Rousseau-Decelle, 1956

The larvae feed on Blighia unijugata.

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae volume 7:287-524. page 390 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae volume 5:545-601 )

Taxonomy

Charaxes tiridates group

The supposed clade members are:

• Charaxes tiridates
• Charaxes numenes similar to next
• Charaxes bipunctatus similar to last
• Charaxes violetta
• Charaxes fuscus
• Charaxes mixtus
• Charaxes bubastis
• Charaxes albimaculatus
• Charaxes barnsi
• Charaxes bohemani
• Charaxes schoutedeni
• Charaxes monteiri
• Charaxes smaragdalis
• Charaxes xiphares
• Charaxes cithaeron
• Charaxes nandina
• Charaxes imperialis
• Charaxes ameliae
• Charaxes pythodoris
• ? Charaxes overlaeti

For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013[3]

Subspecies

• C. b. bipunctatus (Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
• C. b. ugandensis van Someren, 1972 (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, western Uganda, western Kenya, southern Sudan, north-western Tanzania)

References

1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
3. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.

• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)215-264.

External links

• Images of C. b. bipunctatus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. b. ugandensis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• C. b. ugandensis images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• African Butterfly Database Range map via search