Charaxes porthos

Charaxes porthos
Figure 4 (as Charaxes midas)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Nymphalidae
Genus:Charaxes
Species: C. porthos
Binomial name
Charaxes porthos
Synonyms
  • Charaxes midas Staudinger, 1891
  • Charaxes dunkeli Röber, 1939
  • Charaxes katangae Rousseau-Decelle, 1931

Charaxes porthos, the Porthos untailed charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and drier forests.

Adults are attracted to fermented bananas.

Subspecies

  • C. p. porthos (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Kinshasa, Sankuru)
  • C. p. dummeri Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
  • C. p. gallayi van Someren, 1968 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
  • C. p. katangae Rousseau-Decelle, 1931 (Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba)

Taxonomy

Charaxes porthos is a member of the species group Charaxes lycurgus. The supposed clade members are:

Clade 1

Clade 2

References

  1. ↑ DeutschEntomolZeit1891Taf2.jpg
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • 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. also as dunkeli


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