Charaxes cacuthis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. cacuthis
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Charaxes cacuthis is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar.[2] The habitat consists of lowland and coastal forests.
Description
A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan (1900). Novitates Zoologicae volume 7:287-524. [1] page 457-458 as subspecies of Charaxes etesipe (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae volume 5:545-601 [2])
Life history
The larvae feed on Annona senegalensis.
Realm
Classification
Charaxes cacuthis is a member of the species group Charaxes etesipe.
The clade members are:
- Charaxes etesipe nominate
- Charaxes penricei
- Charaxes achaemenes
- Charaxes paradoxa
- Charaxes cacuthis
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes cacuthis.
Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes cacuthis.
- ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1966). Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)45-101.[3]
External links
- Charaxes cacuthis images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search
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