Charaxes hildebrandti

Charaxes hildebrandti, the Hildebrandt's charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Zambia.[2] Its habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

Charaxes hildebrandti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. hildebrandti
Binomial name
Charaxes hildebrandti
(Dewitz, 1879)[1]
Synonyms
  • Nymphalis hildebrandti Dewitz, 1879
  • Charaxes hildebrandtii
  • Charaxes galba Distant, 1879
  • Charaxes talagugae Holland, 1886
  • Charaxes hidebrandti hildebrandti f. michelae Plantrou, 1980

The larvae feed on Dyboscia species.

Subspecies
  • Charaxes hildebrandti hildebrandti (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, Central African Republic, northern and central Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda)
  • Charaxes hildebrandti gillesi Plantrou, 1973 (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
  • Charaxes hildebrandti katangensis Talbot, 1928 (eastern and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Zambia, Uganda: west to the Bwamba Valley)

Taxonomy

Charaxes hildebrandti is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

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
  • 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.


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