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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. blanda |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes blanda | |
Charaxes blanda is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania. [3]
Ch. blanda Rothsch. In the male the wings are black above, with strong greenish blue reflection. Hindwing above beyond the middle between veins 2 and 7 with a broad (9 mm. in cellule 2), blue transverse band, gradually narrowing anteriorly, in cellule 8 represented by a small, free blue spot; on the forewing the transverse band is continued to the costal margin as a row of small blue spots; these spots are placed about 7 mm. from the distal margin and in cellules 4—6 have white centres; in addition the forewing has small, rounded blue spots in the basal part of cellules 2—6, the one in cellule 4 as usual placed at the apex of the cell. Hindwing above in cellules 2—6 (7) with bluish submarginal and marginal streaks, in cellule lc with two white-centred submarginal spots and a thick orange-yellow marginal streak. On the under surface the black discal streaks in cellules 2, 4—8 forming an almost continuous but not quite straight line, which forms the distal side of the dark transverse band; on the forewing the transverse streaks in cellules lb—4 are not joined together. female unknown. German East Africa: Mikindani. [4] A full description is also given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 471-472 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )
The habitat consists of coastal forests.
The larvae feed on Dalbergia species and Brachystegia spiciformis .
Charaxes blanda is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles
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Charaxes ansorgei is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of montane forest on altitudes between 2,000 and 3,000 meters. The larvae feed on Bersama abyssinica abyssinica, Bersama abyssinica englerana and Bersama paullinoides.It was once considered to be a very rare species but it is relatively common in dense and inaccessible montane forests
Charaxes eudoxus, the Eudoxus charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon and Zambia.
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Charaxes nandina is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya, in the central highlands east of the Rift Valley.
Charaxes ameliae, the blue-spotted charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi.
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Charaxes zingha, the shining red charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Tanzania. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and sometimes gallery forests and coastal scrubland.
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