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
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Charaxes subornatus subornatus (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern and western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
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Charaxes subornatus couilloudi Plantrou, 1976[4] (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
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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:
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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^ Schultze, , A. 1916. Die Charaxiden und Apaturiden der Kolonie Kamerun. Archiv für Biontologie 4: 83-129.
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^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
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^ Plantrou, J. 1976 Notes sur les Charaxes de l’Afrique occidentale, 3. (Lep., Nymphalidae).Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 81 (3-4): 126-132.
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^ Joicey, J.J., & Talbot, G. 1921. New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T.A. Barns in east central Africa. Bulletin of the Hill Museum, Witley 1: 40-166.
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^ Bouyer, Th., 1999. Notes sur les Charaxes du <eupale>> d'Afrique centrale (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Ent. Afr. 4(1): 37-40, pl. V.
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^ Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E.V., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. 2008: Les Charaxes du groupe eupale: description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae). Entomologia Africana Hors Série 3: 1–32.
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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 and Charaxes protoclea
