Charaxes cowani

Charaxes cowani
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. cowani
Binomial name
Charaxes cowani Butler, 1878 [1] [2]

Charaxes cowani is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Madagascar. ^[3] The habitat consists of montane forests at altitudes above 1,000 meters.

Full description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae volume 7:287-524. page 370 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae volume 5:545-601 )

Taxonomy

Charaxes candiope group. The group members are:

• Charaxes candiope
• Charaxes antamboulou like next
• Charaxes cowani like last
• Charaxes velox
• Charaxes thomasius

Etymology

Named for Rev William Deans Cowan, missionary author of Geographical Excursions in South Central Madagascar. Royal Geographical Society, London, 1882.

References

1. Butler, A.G. 1878. On a collection of lepidoptera recently received from Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 2: 283-297.
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.

• Victor Gurney Logan 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.

External links

• Charaxes cowani images at Charaxes page Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• African Butterfly Database Range map via search