Charaxes bocqueti

Charaxes bocqueti
Male C. b. oubanguiensis from the CAR
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. bocqueti
Binomial name
Charaxes bocqueti Minig, 1975 [2] [3]
Synonyms
Charaxes bocqueti f. alladinoidesBouche and Minig, 1977

Charaxes bocqueti, the Bocquet's demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Gabon, the Central African Republic and possibly Nigeria. ^[4] The habitat consists of tropical evergreen forests.

Subspecies

• C. b. bocqueti (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• C. b. oubanguiensisMining, 1975 (Gabon, Central African Republic, possibly Nigeria)

References

1. Larsen, T.B. (2011). "Charaxes bocqueti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011 e.T160109A5351750. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T160109A5351750.en . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
2. Minig, A. 1975. Contribution a l'etude des Charaxes du groupe etheocles (Lepid. - Nymphalidae. Lambillionea 75 bis: 25-35.
3. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
4. "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-24.

External links

• African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt as new synonym for Charaxes plantroui
• Images of C. b. bocqueti Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Charaxes bocqueti images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• C. b. bocqueti images at BOLD
• C. b. ubangiensis images at BOLD
• African Butterfly Database Range map via search