Charaxes lecerfi

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Charaxes lecerfi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. lecerfi
Binomial name
Charaxes lecerfi
Lathy, 1925 [1] [2]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes janmoulleiBerger, 1975
  • Charaxes hadrianus lecerfiLathy, 1926

Charaxes lecerfi, the Le Cerf's white charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and possibly southern Nigeria. [3] The habitat consists of evergreen forests. It is a local and rare species. [4]

Contents

The name honours Ferdinand Le Cerf.

Taxonomy

Ranked as a subspecies of Charaxes hadrianus by Vingerhoedt. [5]

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References

  1. Lathy, P.I. 1925. Notes sur les Charaxes de la collection de Madam G. Fournier Encyclopedie Entomologique (B.3 Lepidoptera) 1: 93-97.
  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 2012-05-23.
  4. Larsen, T.B. 2005 Butterflies of West Africa. Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1-595.
  5. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16.