Charaxes boueti

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Charaxes boueti
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. boueti
Binomial name
Charaxes boueti
Synonyms
  • Charaxes boueti ghanaensisRousseau-Decelle and Johnston, 1957
  • Charaxes boueti f. irradiansTurlin, 1998

Charaxes boueti, the bamboo charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda. [3] The habitat consists of forests, woodland and savanna.

Contents

The larvae feed on Arundinaria alpinus , Oxytenanthera abyssinica , Bambusa vulgaris and Afzelia species.

Description

The underside of the forewing is white or silvery at the costal margin to the end of the cell and the hindwing beneath hasa nearly straight silvery median band, only 2–3 mm. in breadth. The transverse markings of the under surface are reddish, as in the other species of this group, and only black in cellule 1 b of the forewing. The base of both wings above more or less broadly red-yellow or red-brown. The females with light yellow median band. The hindwing with two well developed tails.Ch. boueti is distinguished by a material reduction of the black markings on the upper surface. In the male the basal part of the forewing above is only separated by a row of free black spots from the broad, concolorous median band and the marginal spots also only by a nearly straight row of thick, lunulate, black spots from the median band. In cellules 3—7 of the forewing the median band is divided into two by black spots. In boueti Feisth. the spots which divide the median band in cellules 3—7 are united into a band; the transverse streaks in the basal part of cellule 2 on the underside of the forewing are black; the female is unknown. In Senegambia and the interior of Sierra Leone.— In rectans Rothsch. and Jord. (male) the marginal spots of the throwing are larger and the marginal band of the hindwing narrower than in the type-form. Forewing beneath with a silvery transverse band beyond the middle. Abyssinia. [4] A full description is also given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 408 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Images

External images from Royal Museum of Central Africa.

Taxonomy

Charaxes cynthia group

The group members are:

Related to Charaxes cynthia , Charaxes macclounii and Charaxes lasti [5]

Subspecies

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References

  1. ↑ Feisthamel, J. F. P. 1850 Description de quelques Lépidoptères Rhopalocéres nouveaux ou peu connus, provenant de la Cazamance (Afrique) Ann. Soc. ent. Fr. (2) 8: 247-262.
  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 2012-05-22.
  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.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  5. ↑ Kielland, J. 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.
  6. ↑ Bivar de Sousa, A. ]. 1983. Actas del I Congreso Iberico de Entomologia, Facultad de Biologia, Leon,France, 7–10 June 1983: 113 (107-119)
  7. ↑ Rothschild, W & Jordan, K. 1903 Lepidoptera collected by Oscar Neumann in northeast Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 491-542.


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