Charaxes gallagheri

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Charaxes gallagheri
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. gallagheri
Binomial name
Charaxes gallagheri
van Son, 1962 [1] [2]

Charaxes gallagheri, the Gallagher's charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and eastern Zimbabwe and Zambia. [3] The habitat consists of granite-boulder hills in savanna.

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There are two generations per year with adults on wing from November to December and again from late February to April.

The larvae feed on Diospyros natalensis .

Taxonomy

Charaxes gallagheri is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

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References

  1. Van Son, G. 1962. New African butterflies – 1 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 25: 140-148.
  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.