Charaxes subornatus Schultze 1914

Charaxes subornatus, the ornate green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya.^[3] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

The larvae feed on Albizia - A. brownei, A. gummifera and A. zygia.

Charaxes subornatus and Charaxes protoclea

Subspecies

• Charaxes subornatus subornatus (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern and western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Charaxes subornatus couilloudi Plantrou, 1976^[4] (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
• Charaxes subornatus minor Joicey & Talbot, 1921^[5] (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Kenya) is considered by some authorities to be a full species^[6]

Similar species

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

• Charaxes subornatus
• Charaxes eupale
• Charaxes dilutus
• Charaxes montis
• Charaxes minor
• Charaxes schiltzei
• Charaxes schultzei
• Charaxes virescens

Bouyer et al., 2008 erected the genus Viridixes Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2008 to accommodate species belonging to the eupale species group.^[7]

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References

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• 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]
• 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.

Charaxes subornatus is een vlinder uit de familie van de Nymphalidae.^[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1914 door Schultze.