Charaxes bipunctatus

Charaxes bipunctatus
Charaxes bipunctatus ugandensis male from CAR
Charaxes bipunctatus ugandensis female from Kenya
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. bipunctatus
Binomial name
Charaxes bipunctatus
Rothschild, 1894[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes bipunctatus johnstoni Rousseau-Decelle, 1956

Charaxes bipunctatus, the Two-spot Blue Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and sub-montane forests at altitudes between 1,200 and 1,500 meters.

The larvae feed on Blighia - Blighia unijugata.

Description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 390 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Taxonomy

Charaxes tiridates group

the supposed clade members are

For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013[3]

Subspecies

References

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