Charaxes ameliae
| Charaxes ameliae | |
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| Charaxes ameliae male from CAR | |
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| Charaxes ameliae female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. ameliae |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes ameliae Doumet, 1861[1] | |
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Charaxes ameliae, the Blue-spotted Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.[2] The habitat consists of forests and Brachystegia woodland.
The larvae feed on Brachystegia spiciformis, Julbernardia globiflora, Albizia adianthifolia and Baikiaea insignis.
Description
A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 391-394 (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
- Charaxes ameliae ameliae (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Charaxes ameliae amelina Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Tanzania: Kigoma, Malawi, northern Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: Shaba)
- Charaxes ameliae doumeti Henning, 1989 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes ameliae victoriae van Someren, 1972 (Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
References
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- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31
- 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. ameliae ameliae Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes ameliae images at Charaxes page Consortium for the Barcode of Life subspecies and forms
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search