Charaxes boueti

Charaxes boueti
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. boueti
Binomial name
	Charaxes boueti; Feisthamel, 1850
Synonyms
	Charaxes boueti ghanaensis Rousseau-Decelle and Johnston, 1957; Charaxes boueti f. irradians Turlin, 1998;

Charaxes boueti, the Bamboo Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Ethiopia and Uganda.^[2] The habitat consists of forests, woodland and savanna.

The larvae feed on Arundinaria alpinus, Oxytenanthera abyssinica, Bambusa vulgaris and Afzelia species.

Description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 408 et seq. (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])

Taxonomy

Charaxes cynthia group

The group members are

Charaxes cynthia similar to Charaxes lucretius
Charaxes protoclea
Charaxes boueti close to next
Charaxes lasti close to last.
Charaxes alticola

Subspecies

Charaxes boueti boueti (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria (south), Cameroon (west), Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of Congo)
Charaxes boueti carvalhoi Bivar de Sousa, 1983 (north-western Angola)
Charaxes boueti rectans Rothschild & Jordan, 1903 (southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda)