Charaxes bohemani

Charaxes bohemani, the large blue emperor, large blue charaxes or divebomber charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern and southern Africa.[1]

Large blue emperor
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. bohemani
Binomial name
Charaxes bohemani
C. & R. Felder, 1859

The wingspan is 65–75 mm in males and 78–95 mm in females. Their flight period is year-round.[2]

Description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 374-376 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

The larvae feed on Afzelia quanzensis, Brachystegia spiciformis, Julbernardia globiflora, Philenoptera violacea, Dalbergia nitidula, Scotia brachypetala, and Xeroderris stuhlmanni.[1][2]

gollark: Well, that seems awful.
gollark: Well, mostly, but as I said they also require you pay taxes in their currency.
gollark: Currency is another good to be traded, but also one governments legally require you use for some things, because governments.
gollark: Let's make all currency out of thin sheets of easily damaged paper.
gollark: Put too much money in one place, and *boom*.

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
  • 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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