Charaxes legeri
Charaxes legeri, the St. Leger's charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Burkina Faso, northern Benin, northern Nigeria and southern Niger.[2] The habitat consists of woodland savanna at altitudes between 600 and 1,700 meters.
Charaxes legeri | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. legeri |
Binomial name | |
Charaxes legeri Plantrou, 1978[1] | |
The larvae feed on Sorghum roxburghii and Annona species.
References
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- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
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