Charaxes lactetinctus
Charaxes lactetinctus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. lactetinctus |
Binomial name | |
Charaxes lactetinctus Karsch, 1892[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Charaxes lactetinctus, the Blue Patch Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and possibly Sudan.[2] The habitat consists of savanna, including dry thorn-bush savanna.
The larvae feed on Syzygium cordatum and Maesopsis eminii.
Taxonomy
Charaxes lucretius group
The members are
- Charaxes lucretius
- Charaxes octavus
- Charaxes odysseus
- Charaxes lactetinctus
Subspecies
- Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus (western Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, western and north-western Kenya)
- Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi Le Cerf, 1927 (south-western Ethiopia and possibly Sudan)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Charaxes lactetinctus |
- ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ 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.
External links
- Images of C. lactetinctus lactetinctus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi images at BOLD
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