Charaxes nichetes
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| Species: | C. nichetes
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| Charaxes nichetes Grose-Smith, 1883[1]
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Charaxes nichetes, the Manx Charaxes or Water Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Angola.[2] The habitat consists of forests, low altitude woodland savanna and Brachystegia woodland.
Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing most of the year.
The larvae feed on Uapaca nitida, Uapaca kirkiana and Uapaca sansibarica.
Subspecies
- Charaxes nichetes nichetes (southern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, northern Angola, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda: western and northern shores of Lake Victoria)
- Charaxes nichetes bouchei Plantrou, 1974 (Sierra Leone, Liberia, southern Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes nichetes leoninus Butler, 1895 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Shaba, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)
- Charaxes nichetes leopardinus Plantrou, 1974 (Guinea, north-eastern Ivory Coast, Nigeria, northern Cameroon, Chad)
- Charaxes nichetes pantherinus Rousseau-Decelle, 1934 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-eastern Zambia, north-western Tanzania)
- Charaxes nichetes ssese Turlin & Lequeux, 2002 (Uganda)
Taxonomy
Charaxes nichetes is the sole member of species group Charaxes nichetes
References
- ^ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ 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. [1]
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 32
External links
- Images of C. nichetes leoninus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. nichetes nichetes (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. nichetes pantherinus (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes nichetes images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes nichetes nichetes images at BOLD
- Charaxes nichetes bouchei images at BOLD
- Charaxes nichetes leoninus images at BOLD
- Charaxes nichetes leopardinus images at BOLD
- Charaxes nichetes pantherinus images at BOLD
- Charaxes nichetes ssese images at BOLD
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