Charaxes bocqueti
Appearance
Charaxes bocqueti | |
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Male C. b. oubanguiensis from the CAR | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. bocqueti
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Binomial name | |
Charaxes bocqueti Minig, 1975[1]
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Synonyms | |
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Charaxes bocqueti, the Bocquet's demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Gabon, the Central African Republic and possibly Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.
Subspecies
- C. b. bocqueti (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
- C. b. oubanguiensis Mining, 1975 (Gabon, Central African Republic, possibly Nigeria)
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes bocqueti.
Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes bocqueti.
- ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
External links
- African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt as new synonym for Charaxes plantroui
- Images of C. b. bocqueti Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes bocqueti images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- C. b. bocqueti images at BOLD
- C. b. ubangiensis images at BOLD
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search