Charaxes hansali
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.
Cream-banded charaxes | |
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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 | |
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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)
Taxonomy
The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:
- Charaxes jasius
- Charaxes pelias – smaller than jasius
- Charaxes hansali
- Charaxes castor
- Charaxes brutus – dark with white bands
- Charaxes andara – Madagascar
- Charaxes ansorgei
- Charaxes phoebus
- Charaxes pollux
- Charaxes druceanus
- Charaxes phraortes – Madagascar, close to next
- Charaxes andranodorus – close to last
- Charaxes eudoxus
- Charaxes richelmanni
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References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes hansali. |
Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes hansali |
- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
External links
- Charaxes hanseli hanseli images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes hansali baringana images at BOLD
- Charaxes hansali yemeni images at BOLD verso
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