Charaxes antiquus

Charaxes antiquus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of São Tomé.[1][2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland. The species was named by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1926.[1]

Charaxes antiquus
Male
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. antiquus
Binomial name
Charaxes antiquus
Synonyms
  • Charaxes brutus antiquus Joicey & Talbot, 1926

Description

The butterfly has black edges with two pointy edges on the bottom end, it has a white striped nearly in the middle, and the remainder is colored dark brown and is lighter on the bottom. It is measured 10 centimeters long.

Subspecies

The species is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Charaxes brutus.

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


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