Charaxes baumanni
Charaxes baumanni, the little charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2] The habitat consists of open forests and woodland.
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Female C. b. whytei, figure 3 | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. baumanni |
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Charaxes baumanni Rogenhofer, 1891[1] | |
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Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and also feed on animal scats. Adults are on wing year round.
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Woodland savanna habitat in Kenya
The larvae feed on Acacia brevispica, Acacia seyal, Acacia brevispica, Pterolobium stellatum and Caesalpinia decapetala.
Description
A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 491-492 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )
Subspecies
- C. b. baumanni (north-eastern Tanzania, south-eastern Kenya)
- C. b. bamptoni van Someren, 1974 (Kenya: north to Mount Kulal)
- C. b. bwamba van Someren, 1971 (Uganda: Bwamba Valley, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Kivu)
- C. b. didingensis van Someren, 1971 (Sudan: south to the Didinga Mountains, northern Uganda, northern Kenya)
- C. b. granti Turlin, 1989 (eastern Tanzania)
- C. b. interposita van Someren, 1971 (western Kenya, eastern and central Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
- C. b. nyiro Collins & Larsen, 1991 (Kenya: north to Mount Nyiro)
- C. b. selousi Trimen, 1894 (southern and eastern Zimbabwe, central Zambia)
- C. b. tenuis van Someren, 1971 (northern Tanzania, Kenya: highlands east of the Rift Valley)
- C. b. whytei Butler, 1894 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern and western Tanzania, northern and eastern Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique)
Taxonomy
Charaxes baumanni is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles
Realm
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References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes baumanni. |
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes baumanni |
- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- 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.
- 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. Additional notes.
External links
- Images of C. b. baumanni Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. b. bamptoni Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. b. bwamba Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. b. interposita Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. b. tenuis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. b. whytei Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes baumanni images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- C. b. baumanni images at BOLD
- C. b. interposita images at BOLD
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search
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