Charaxes zingha Stoll 1780

Charaxes zingha (Stoll)
Papilio zingha Stoll, 1780 [1775-1791], 4: 54; pi. 315, figs. B and C (Africa).
This handsome long-winged species is found from Sierra Leone to Uganda throughout the Guinean subregion. I found it in open parts of primitive forest. It has the habit of resting on a leaf beside a trail. When disturbed, it flies off like a bullet, then stops abruptly and comes to rest on another leaf; disturbed again, it darts back to its original resting place. This behavior was the undoing of the specimens re
corded below. My Bassa assistant would station himself at one end of zingha's route, I at the other and one or the other of us would eventually net the specimen.
Liberia: Ganta. 1 2 , V, 1 2 , VI; Wanau Forest, 1 $ , III, 1 2 , X (Fox); Ziabli, 1 S , IV (Condamin, 1951).