Charaxes dilutus

Charaxes dilutus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Angola.[3] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

Charaxes dilutus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. dilutus
Binomial name
Charaxes dilutus
Rothschild, 1898[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes eupalus dilutus Rothschild, 1898
  • Charaxes dilutus miotoni van Someren, 1975[2]

The larvae feed on Albizia gummifera, Albizia adianthifolia and Scutia species.

Full description

A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. page 512 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 )

Subspecies
  • Charaxes dilutus dilutus (Malawi, Zambia, eastern Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, southern and western Tanzania)
  • Charaxes dilutus amanica Collins, 1990 (north-eastern Tanzania)
  • Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989 (Malawi: west-central to the Dzelanyama Range) synonym for Charaxes eupale[2]
  • Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974 (central Kenya, Uganda: south-west to Kigezi, Sudan) synonym for Charaxes eupale[2]

Similar species

Charaxes dilutus is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade). The clade members are

Realm

Afrotropical realm

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References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Bouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt , 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lépidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors série n°3, 2008.
  3. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • Victor Gurney Logan 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.
  • Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe eupale : description d’un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologica Africana Hors Série 3:1-32.


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