Charaxes pleione

Charaxes pleione
Charaxes pleione from CAR
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. pleione
Binomial name
Charaxes pleione
(Godart, 1824)[1]
Synonyms
  • Nymphalis pleione Godart, 1824
  • Philognoma lichas Doubleday, 1849
  • Charaxes lichas ab. othello Suffert, 1904
  • Charaxes lichas bebra Rothschild, 1900
  • Charaxes pleione ab. pallida Lathy, 1925

Charaxes pleione, the Square-winged Red Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland savanna.

The larvae feed on Acacia pennata and Acacia brevispica.

Subspecies

Taxonomy

Charaxes pleione is a member of the species group Charaxes paphianus. The supposed clade members are

Ecozone

Afrotropical ecozone

References

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