Charaxes dubiosus

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Charaxes dubiosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. dubiosus
Binomial name
Charaxes dubiosus
Röber, 1936 [1] [2]

Charaxes dubiosus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon. [3] It is a species of doubtful status. [4]


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References

  1. Röber, J. 1936. Uber einige afrikanische Charaxes – Arten und andere exotische Falter. Entomologische Rundschau 53: 575-580.
  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 2012-05-25.
  4. Ackery, 1995 in Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R., Vane-Wright, R.I., et al. . 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: i-xi, 1-803.