| Charaxes andranodorus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. andranodorus |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes andranodorus | |
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Charaxes andranodorus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. [3]
This rare species is one of the most magnificent forms of Charaxes. Above it agrees very nearly with phraortes , the basal part of both wings being not or scarcely darker than the median band; on the forewing, however, the median band is separated from the basal area by large black spots in cellules 1 b—6; the marginal spots of the hindwing are streak-like and much smaller than in phraortes and the distal margin is distinctly tailed also at vein 3. Beneath both wings have the ground-colour red-brown and the white markings have a silvery gloss and are broader than usual; the black markings in the basal part of the hindwing, on the other hand, are reduced in number, so that cellule 7 and cellule 8 each have only one small transverse spot; in the silvery median band, on the contrary, several black spots are placed behind vein 5. Madagascar; very rare. [4]
In 1900, a full description was given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in Novitates Zoologicae volume 7:287-524 pages 420-422.
The habitat consists of wet afrotropical evergreen forests and rainforests. See Afrotropical forests.
The larvae feed on Annona senegalensis .
C. (andranadorus) andrefana Viette, 1975 [5] (western Madagascar) is now considered as bona species [6]
Historical attempts to assemble a cluster of presumably related species into a "Charaxes jasius Group" have not been wholly convincing. More recent taxonomic revision, [6] corroborated by phylogenetic research, allow a more rational grouping congruent with cladistic relationships. Within a well-populated clade of 27 related species sharing a common ancestor approximately 16 mya during the Miocene, [7] 26 are now considered together as The jasius Group. [6] One of the two lineages within this clade forms a robust monophyletic group of seven species sharing a common ancestor approximately 2-3 mya, i.e. during the Pliocene, [7] and are considered as the jasius subgroup. [6] The second lineage leads to 19 other species within the Jasius group, which are split into three well-populated subgroups of closely related species.
The jasius Group (26 Species): [6]
Clade 1: jasius subgroup (7 species)
Clade 2: contains the well-populated three additional subgroups (19 species) of the jasius Group: called the brutus, pollux, and eudoxus subgroups. [6]
Further exploration of the phylogenetic relationships amongst existing Charaxes taxa is required to improve clarity.
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