Charaxes eupale

Charaxes eupale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. eupale
Binomial name
Charaxes eupale (Drury, 1782)[1]
Synonyms
Papilio eupale Drury, 1782 Papilio amasia Fabricius, 1793 Charaxes schultzei Röber, 1936 Charaxes eupale f. citrinella Rousseau-Decelle, 1938 Charaxes eupale f. inornata Storace, 1948 Charaxes dilutus veneris White & Grant, 1989 Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989[2] Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974[2]

Charaxes eupale, the common green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.^[3] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests.

The larvae feed on Scutia myrtina, Albizia gummifera, Albizia zygia, Albizia adianthifolia and Cathormion species.

The green colouration is produced by pigments as opposed to being produced structurally, which is common in most green butterflies.

Subspecies

• Charaxes eupale eupale (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria)
• Charaxes eupale latimargo Joicey & Talbot, 1921 (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
• Charaxes eupale veneris White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi, Tanzania, northern Zambia)

Similar species

Charaxes eupale 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

Ecozone

Afrotropical

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes eupale.

Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes eupale

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 32
• 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.
• 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.

External links

• African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt images of eupale group
• Charaxes schultzei images at Bold
• Images of C. eupale latimargo Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)