Charaxes odysseus
| Charaxes odysseus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. odysseus |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes odysseus Staudinger, 1892[1] | |
Charaxes odysseus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of São Tomé.[2] The species was described by Otto Staudinger in 1882.
Description
The wingspan of the male is 75 mm and the female is 95 mm. The butterfly has a black wing with brown edges, white-brown dots at the end, white line in the middle and other white-brown dots on top.
Taxonomy
Charaxes lucretius group.
The members are:
- Charaxes lucretius
- Charaxes octavus
- Charaxes odysseus
- Charaxes lactetinctus
References
- ↑ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
Further reading
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 181-226.
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