Charaxes etheocles

Charaxes etheocles, the demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

For demon emperor, see Charaxes phaeus.

Demon charaxes
Male, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. etheocles
Binomial name
Charaxes etheocles
(Cramer, 1777)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio etheocles Cramer, 1777
  • Charaxes hollandi Butler, 1893
  • Charaxes etheocles f. carpenteri Poulton, 1919
  • Charaxes etheocles carpenteri f. pallidimacula van Someren and Jackson, 1957
  • Charaxes etheocles f. evansi van Someren and Rogers, 1932
  • Charaxes etheocles evansi f. conjuncta van Someren and Jackson, 1957
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. violacea Rothschild, 1900
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. ochracea Rothschild, 1900
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. regalis Rothschild, 1900
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. seriata Rothschild, 1900
  • Charaxes etheocles ochracea f. orangina Faravel, 1998

The larvae feed on Scutia myrtina, Celtis durandii, Griffonia simplicifolia, Albizia gummifera, Celtis gomphophylla, Bandeiraea, Cathormion, Dalbergia and Entada species.

Subspecies
  • Charaxes etheocles etheocles (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western and eastern Nigeria)
  • Charaxes etheocles carpenteri van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (central and eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, north-western Tanzania, northern Zambia)
  • Charaxes etheocles evansi van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (Kenya: highlands west of the Rift Valley) may be a full species
  • Charaxes etheocles ochracea van Someren & Jackson, 1957 (Extreme Southwestern Cameroon, Gabon, Congo) perhaps a full species
  • Male and female
  • Female C. e. etheocles, f. fulgens

Taxonomy

Charaxes etheocles is a member of the species group Charaxes etheocles. The supposed clade members are:

Clade 1

Clade 2

Unplaced but in etheocles clade

For a full list of this species group see Vingerhoedt African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains [3]

Realm

Afrotropical realm

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". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.


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