Charaxes cedreatis

Charaxes cedreatis
	Female
	Male from the CAR - ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. cedreatis
Binomial name
	Charaxes cedreatis; Hewitson, 1874[1]
Synonyms
	Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. lutacea Rothschild, 1900; Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. vetula Rothschild, 1900; Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. protocedreatis Poulton, 1926; Charaxes cedreatis cedreatis f. inexpectata van Someren, 1969;

Charaxes cedreatis, the green demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Bioko, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, southern Sudan, northern Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, western Tanzania and north-western Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of evergreen forests, Brachystegia woodland and riverine forests.

Adult males feed on otter scats, but are also attracted to other carnivore droppings, as well as moist sand. Adult females seem to prefer fermenting fruit and sap oozing from wounds in tree trunks and branches.

The larvae feed on Albizia brownei, Albizia grandibracteata, Albizia zygia, Griffonia simplicifolia, Annona senegalensis, Dalbergia lactea and Scutia myrtina.

Taxonomy

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

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References

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

Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 33 c
Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)75-166.

External links

Charaxes cedreatis images at Charaxes page Consortium for the Barcode of Life subspecies and forms
Images of C. cedreatis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
African Butterfly Database Range map via search

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[funet-1] "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-2] Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini