Charaxes lucretius
Charaxes lucretius, the violet-washed charaxes or common red charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
Charaxes lucretius | |
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C. l. lucretius Bobiri Forest, Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Charaxes |
Species: | C. lucretius |
Binomial name | |
Charaxes lucretius | |
Synonyms | |
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Taxonomy
Charaxes lucretius group:
- Charaxes lucretius
- Charaxes octavus
- Charaxes odysseus
- Charaxes lactetinctus
- Charaxes lemosi
Subspecies
- C. l. lucretius (Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- C. l. intermedius van Someren, 1971 (Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia)
- C. l. maximus van Someren, 1971 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
- C. l. saldanhai Bivar de Sousa, 1983 (north-western Angola)
- C. l. schofieldi Plantrou, 1989 (north-eastern Zambia)
- C. l. intermedius - male
- C. l. intermedius - female
Distribution and habitat
It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of primary forests.
Biology
Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit, but males are also attracted to animal droppings. The larvae feed on Annona senegalensis, Hugonia platysepala and Trema species.
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References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Charaxes lucretius. |
Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes lucretius |
- "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
External links
- Images of C. l. intermedius Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. l. maximus (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes lucretius images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- C. l. lucretius images at BOLD
- C. l. maximus images at BOLD
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