Charaxes jahlusa

Charaxes jahlusa, the pearl-spotted emperor or pearl spotted charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae found in southern Africa.[1]

Pearl-spotted emperor
From Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. jahlusa
Binomial name
Charaxes jahlusa
(Trimen, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Nymphalis jahlusa Trimen, 1862
  • Charaxes argynnides Westwood, 1864
  • Charaxes jahlusa kenyensis f. pallene van Someren, 1974
  • Charaxes jahlusa kigoma van Someren, 1974

The wingspan is 43–56 mm in males and 50–62 mm in females. Flight period is from October to March, some species are year-round.[2]

Larvae feed on Pappea capensis, Dalbergia melanoxylon, and Haplocoelum foliosum.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Charaxes jahlusa is the sole member of the Charaxes jahlusa species group

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.[1]

  • C. j. argynnides Westwood, 1864 — southern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, northern and eastern Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland
  • C. j. ganalensis Carpenter, 1937 — southern Sudan, south-western Ethiopia, northern Uganda, western Kenya
  • C. j. jahlusa (Trimen, 1862) — South Africa: Eastern Cape Province, Western Cape Province
  • C. j. kenyensis Joicey & Talbot, 1925 — eastern and north-eastern Kenya, north-eastern Tanzania
  • C. j. kigomaensis van Someren, 1975 — Tanzania: north-west to the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika
  • C. j. mafiae Turlin & Lequeux, 1992 — Tanzania: Mafia Island
  • C. j. rex Henning, 1978 — southern Zimbabwe, south-eastern Botswana, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and Gauteng provinces
  • C. j. rwandensis Plantrou, 1976 — western Rwanda, north-western Tanzania
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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.


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