Charaxes doubledayi

Charaxes doubledayi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. doubledayi
Binomial name
Charaxes doubledayi
Aurivillius, 1899[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes doubledayi ab. viridis Röber, 1936

Charaxes doubledayi, Doubleday’s Untailed Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

Description

Very similar to Charaxes mycerina but antennae much darker, the blue scaling in the cell of the forewing denser and more extended, forewing with admarginal blue spots, band of hindwing of male not interrupted at R1. On the underside the cell-bar of forewing more straight, more obliquely placed, its upper end being only 1.5 mm. distant from base of R1, median bars also straighter, the bistre brown outer marginal band more sharply defined, the clay coloured area between it and the disco-postdiscal line divided by a band of bistre brown patches ; median bar M2 SM2 straight or distally convex ; costal median bar of hindwing 3 or 4 mm. more distal than bar C- SC2 ; the white borders of the bars of both wings much more prominent than in mycerina ; anal angle less produced.

Taxonomy

Charaxes doubledayi is a member of the species group Charaxes lycurgus. The supposed clade members are

Clade 1

Clade 2

References

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  1. ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini


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