Charaxes pembanus

Charaxes pembanus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Pemba Island, just off the east coast of Africa.[2] The habitat consists of forest margins and woodland.

Charaxes pembanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. pembanus
Binomial name
Charaxes pembanus
Jordan, 1925[1]
Synonyms
  • Charaxes etheocles pembanus Jordan, 1925
  • Charaxes pembanus f. coelestissima Turlin, 1987

The larvae probably feed on Albizia species.

Taxonomy

Charaxes pembanus is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

gollark: This is why we should all use bigger reactors.
gollark: You didn't beat it.
gollark: That's less efficient.
gollark: That's basically my design with better cooling.
gollark: Considering power drained by e-magnets a decent 9x9x9 1000% efficiency design can beat an H-H reactor.

References
  1. "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  • Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1966 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 45-101. page 70 Plate 9, figures 67-68, 71-72.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.