Charaxes baumanni

Charaxes baumanni
Female C. b. whytei, figure 3
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. baumanni
Binomial name
Charaxes baumanni Rogenhofer, 1891 [1] [2]
Synonyms
Charaxes selousiTrimen, 1894 Charaxes whyteiButler, 1894

Charaxes baumanni, the little charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. ^[3] The habitat consists of open forests and woodland.

Both sexes visit fermenting fruit and also animal scats. Adults are on wing year round.

Woodland savanna habitat in Kenya

The larvae feed on Acacia brevispica , Acacia seyal , Acacia brevispica , Pterolobium stellatum and Caesalpinia decapetala .

C. b. baumanni in Seitz

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Ch. baumanni Rghfr. male: hindwing above beyond the middle between veins 2 and 7 with a light blue transverse band, in the middle about 5 mm. in breadth, anteriorly narrowed, which is also continued on the forewing but is there much narrower and broken up into small spots; forewing otherwise unmarked, but the hindwing with white-centred submarginal spots and greenish (in cellules 4—6 orange-yellow) marginal streaks. The fine black median line of the under surface is also continuous on the forewing to the costal margin, straight and on both wings distally bordered with whitish. In the female the transverse band on the upper surface is pure white, somewhat further from the distal margin and continuous to vein 4 of the forewing, then divided into two rows of spots. Manicaland, Nyassaland and German East Africa. ^[4] A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 491-492 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies

• C. b. baumanni (north-eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya)
• C. b. bamptonivan Someren, 1974 . [5] (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal)
• C. b. bwambavan Someren, 1971 (Uganda: Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu)
• C. b. didingensisvan Someren, 1971 ^[6] (Sudan: south to the Didinga Mountains, northern Uganda, northern Kenya)
• C. b. grantiTurlin, 1988, . ^[7] (eastern Tanzania)
• C. b. interpositavan Someren, 1971 (western Kenya, eastern and central Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
• C. b. nyiroCollins & Larsen, 1991 ^[8] (Kenya: north to Mount Nyiro)
• C. b. selousiTrimen, 1894 ^[9] (southern and eastern Zimbabwe, central Zambia)
• C. b. tenuisvan Someren, 1971 (northern Tanzania, Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)
• C. b. whyteiButler, 1894 ^[10] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern and western Tanzania, northern and eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique)

Taxonomy

Charaxes baumanni is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References

1. Rogenhofer , A.F. 1891 Diagnosen neuer Schmetterlinge des K.K. naturhistorischen Hofmuseums. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 41: 563-566 Full text.
2. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
4. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
5. Van Someren, V.G.L. 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8): 415-487.
6. van Someren, V.G.L. 1971. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 26:181-226.
7. Turlin, 1988 in Mark C. Williams Checklist of Afrotropical Papilionoidea and Hesperoidea 7th ed. 2008.
8. Collins , S.C. and Larsen, T.B. 1991. Description of new genera, species, and subspecies discovered as part of the research for the book The butterflies of Kenya and their natural history. in Larsen-T, B The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford: i-xxi, 1-490
9. Trimen, R. 1894. On the collection of butterflies made in Manica, tropical south-east Africa, by Mr. F.C. Selous, in the year 1892. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1894:14-82. Full text
10. Butler, A. G 1895 On collections of Lepidoptera from British Central Africa and Lake Tanganyika Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1895 (2) : 250-270, pl. 15-16 Full text

• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)181-226.
• Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. Additional notes.

External links

• Images of C. b. baumanni Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. b. bamptoni Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. b. bwamba Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. b. interposita Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. b. tenuis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Images of C. b. whytei Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Charaxes baumanni images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• C. b. baumanni images at BOLD
• C. b. interposita images at BOLD
• African Butterfly Database Range map via search