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Charaxes numenes, the lesser blue charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.[3]
Ch. numenes Hew. (31 c). Tails of the hindwing short. Hindwing beneath somewhat beyond the middle with a continuous, fine, gently curved, black transverse line, distally bordered with white, almost exactly as in violetta. In this these two species differ from all the rest of the tiridates group. Male, wings above bluish black, at the base black-brown; forewing in the middle with four small blue spots in the basal part of cellules 2-5 and usually also behind the middle with a transverse row of blue dots; marginal spots distinct, ochre-yellow. Hindwing beyond the middle with a row of blue dots, incurved in cellule 6; small whitish submarginal spots and fine whitish marginal streaks. The female agrees almost entirely with that of tiridates Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda. - neumanni Rothsch. has larger yellow marginal spots on both wings and somewhat longer tail-appendages on the hindwing; Abyssinia. [4]
The habitat consists of evergreen lowland forests.
The larvae feed on Hugonia platysepela, Grewia mollis, Grewia forbesi, Grewia trichocarpa, Deinbollia fulvotomentella, Erythrina abyssinica, Erythrina excelsa, Allophylus, Blighia unijugata and Phialodiscus unijugatus.
Male - dorsal side
Male - ventral side
Female - dorsal side
Female - ventral side
Charaxes tiridates group.
The supposed clade members are:
For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.[8]
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Data related to Charaxes numenes at WikispeciesCharaxes numenes, the lesser blue charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.
Charaxes numenes est un lépidoptère appartenant à la famille des Nymphalidae, à la sous-famille des Charaxinae et au genre Charaxes.
♂ face dorsal
♂ △ face ventrale
♀ face dorsal
♀ △ face ventrale
Charaxes numenes est un grand papillon d’un beau noir à reflets bleu métallique chez le mâle.
Le dimorphisme sexuel est fort, la femelle est plus grande que le mâle en moyenne 75,4 mm pour le mâle contre 89,6 mm pour la femelle[1]
Hugonia platysepala, Grewia sp. , Allophylus sp.[2].
Présente en Afrique centrale :Ouganda, Centrafrique, Congo, et en Afrique de l’Est : Kenya, Tanzanie ; en Afrique de l’Ouest : Ghana, Sierra Leone.
Il réside en lisière de forêt.
Charaxes numenes a été décrit par le naturaliste anglais William Chapman Hewitson, en 1865[3] sous le nom de Nymphalis numenes.
Il existe quatre sous-espèces :
Charaxes numenes est un lépidoptère appartenant à la famille des Nymphalidae, à la sous-famille des Charaxinae et au genre Charaxes.
Charaxes numenes is een vlinder uit de familie van de Nymphalidae.[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1859 door William Chapman Hewitson.
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