Charaxes porthos

Charaxes porthos
	Charaxes porthos - CAR
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. porthos
Binomial name
	Charaxes porthos; Grose-Smith, 1883
Synonyms
	Charaxes midas Staudinger, 1891; Charaxes dunkeli Röber, 1939; Charaxes katangae Rousseau-Decelle, 1931;

Charaxes porthos, the Porthos untailed charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and drier forests.

Adults are attracted to fermented bananas.

Subspecies

C. p. porthos (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Kinshasa, Sankuru)
C. p. dummeri Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
C. p. gallayi van Someren, 1968 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
C. p. katangae Rousseau-Decelle, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba)

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

Clade 1

Clade 2

Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. [1] also as dunkeli

This article related to members of the butterfly subfamily Charaxinae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.