Charaxes lecerfi

Charaxes lecerfi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Nymphalidae
Genus:Charaxes
Species: C. lecerfi
Binomial name
Charaxes lecerfi
Lathy, 1925[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes janmoullei Berger, 1975

Charaxes lecerfi, the Le Cerf's white charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and possibly southern Nigeria.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

Taxonomy

Ranked as a subspecies of Charaxes hadrianus by Vingerhoedt.[3]

References

  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  3. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16.


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