Charaxes blanda

Charaxes blanda is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of coastal forests.

Charaxes blanda
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. blanda
Binomial name
Charaxes blanda
Rothschild, 1897[1]

The larvae feed on Dalbergia species and Brachystegia spiciformis.

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 471-472 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies
  • Charaxes blanda blanda (south-eastern Tanzania)
  • Charaxes blanda kenyae Poulton, 1926 (Kenya: coast north of Mombasa)

Taxonomy

Charaxes blanda is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles

Realm

Afrotropical realm

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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
  • Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1970 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 197-250.


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