Charaxes zingha

Shining red charaxes
male upper side
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. zingha
Binomial name
Charaxes zingha
(Stoll, 1780)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio zingha Stoll, 1780
  • Papilio berenice Drury, 1782

Charaxes zingha, the Shining red charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the northern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and western Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and sometimes gallery forests and coastal scrubland.

The larvae feed on Hugonia - Hugonia platsepala and Hugonia castaneifolia.

Male upper and underside of wings

Short description

Male: The upperside ground colour is black. There is a triangular orange-red patch on the forewing contiguous with the orange-red basal area of the black hindwing, a marginal row of red/yellow spots and four pale spots at the tornus.

The underside of the forewing is grey-yellow with a peach-pink area extending from the disc to the dorsum. There are 5-6 rounded black spots. The very colorful hindwing has a whitish or reddish brown ground color with numerous black markings and stains so that it appears almost netted; the anal lobe is colored yellow on the edge.

Full description

A full description is given by *Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 452 for terms see Volume 5:545-601

Taxonomy

Charaxes zingha is the sole member of the Charaxes zingha species group (subgenus Zingha)

Ecozone

Afrotropical ecozone.

References

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


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