Charaxes dilutus

Charaxes dilutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. dilutus
Binomial name
	Charaxes dilutus; Rothschild, 1898
Synonyms
	Charaxes eupalus dilutus Rothschild, 1898; Charaxes dilutus miotoni van Someren, 1975;

Charaxes dilutus is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Angola.^[3] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

The larvae feed on Albizia gummifera, Albizia adianthifolia and Scutia species.

Full description

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. [1] page 512 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2])

Subspecies

Charaxes dilutus dilutus (Malawi, Zambia, eastern Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern and western Tanzania)
Charaxes dilutus amanica Collins, 1990 (north-eastern Tanzania)
Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi: west-central to the Dzelanyama Range) synonym for Charaxes eupale^[2]
Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974 (central Kenya, Uganda: south-west to Kigezi, Sudan) synonym for Charaxes eupale^[2]

Similar species

Charaxes dilutus is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade).The clade members are

Ecozone

Afrotropical

References

^ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
^ ^a ^b ^c Bouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt , 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lépidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors série n°3, 2008.
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini

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. [3]
Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe eupale : description d’un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologica Africana Hors Série 3:1-32.

External links

ssp. diluta African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt^{[permanent dead link]}
ssp. amanica African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt^{[permanent dead link]}
African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt^{[permanent dead link]} images of eupale group
Charaxes dilutus dilutus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Charaxes dilutus amanica images at BOLD
Charaxes dilutus kasitu images at BOLD
Charaxes dilutus veneris images at BOLD
Images of C. dilutus amanica Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
Images of C. dilutus ngonga (Albertine Rift Project)
African Butterfly Database Range map via search (noting synonymy above on this page)

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[funet-1] Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela

[Bouyer,_Zakharov,_Rougerie_&_Vingerhoedt-2] Bouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt , 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lépidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors série n°3, 2008.

[ATBUT-3] Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini

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