Charaxes nitebis

Charaxes nitebis, the green rajah, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1859. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Charaxes nitebis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. nitebis
Binomial name
Charaxes nitebis
(Hewitson, 1859)[1]
Synonyms
  • Nymphalis nitebis Hewitson, 1859

Subspecies

  • C. n. nitebis (North Sulawesi)
  • C. n. sulaensis Rothschild, 1900 (Sula Island, Banggai)
  • C. n. luscius Fruhstorfer, 1914 (South Sulawesi)

References

  1. Hewitson, 1859 Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9


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