Charaxes hansali

Charaxes hansali, the cream-banded charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.[2] The habitat consists of arid savanna.

Cream-banded charaxes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. hansali
Binomial name
Charaxes hansali
Felder, 1867[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes hansalii
  • Charaxes achaemenes ab. minor Storace, 1948
  • Charaxes hansalii kulalensis van Someren, 1971

The larvae feed on Salvadora persica, Osyris lanceolata, Colpoon compressum and Dobera glabra.

Subspecies
  • C. h. hansali (northern, eastern and south-eastern Ethiopia, Somalia: north to the Wagga Mountains)
  • C. h. arabica Riley, 1931 (Oman)
  • C. h. baringana Rothschild, 1905 (Tanzania: southern shores of Lake Victoria, eastern Rwanda, Kenya, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia)
  • C. h. kulalae van Someren, 1975 (Kenya: Mount Kulal, Ethiopia: south to Nighelli)
  • C. h. yemeni Turlin, 1998 (Yemen)

Taxonomy

The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • 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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