Charaxes hansali

Cream-banded charaxes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. hansali
Binomial name
	Charaxes hansali; Felder, 1867[1]
Synonyms
	Charaxes hansalii; Charaxes achaemenes ab. minor Storace, 1948; Charaxes hansalii kulalensis van Someren, 1971;

Charaxes hansali, the cream-banded charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.[2] The habitat consists of arid savanna.

The larvae feed on Salvadora persica, Osyris lanceolata, Colpoon compressum and Dobera glabra.

Subspecies

C. h. hansali (northern, eastern and south-eastern Ethiopia, Somalia: north to the Wagga Mountains)
C. h. arabica Riley, 1931 (Oman)
C. h. baringana Rothschild, 1905 (Tanzania: southern shores of Lake Victoria, eastern Rwanda, Kenya, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia)
C. h. kulalae van Someren, 1975 (Kenya: Mount Kulal, Ethiopia: south to Nighelli)
C. h. yemeni Turlin, 1998 (Yemen)

The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:

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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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