Charaxes defulvata
| Charaxes defulvata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. defulvata |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes defulvata | |
Charaxes defulvata is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of São Tomé.[2] The habitat consists of forests. The species of butterfly was named by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1926.
Taxonomy
The species is often treated as a subspecies of Charaxes varanes.
It is a member of the Charaxes varanes group. Subgenus Stonehamia (Hadrodontes)
The group members are:
- Charaxes varanes
- Charaxes fulvescens very similar to varanes
- Charaxes acuminatus very pointed forewing
- Charaxes balfouri
- Charaxes analava
- Charaxes nicati
- Charaxes bertrami perhaps subspecies of varanes
- Charaxes saperanus
- Charaxes defulvata
References
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- ↑ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
External links
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search
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