Charaxes violetta

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

Violet-spotted emperor
Male figures 1 and 2, female figure 8
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. violetta
Binomial name
Charaxes violetta

The wingspan is 65–70 mm for males and 75–85 mm for females. Species is double brooded from August to October and April to June.[2]

Larvae feed on Blighia unijugata) and Deinbollia species.[1][2]

In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana

Full description

  • Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae volume 7:287-524. page 372 for terms see volume 5:545-601 .

Taxonomy

Charaxes tiridates group.

The supposed clade members are:

For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.[3]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • C. v. maritima van Someren, 1966 (coast of Kenya, Tanzania: north-east to the coast)
  • C. v. melloni Fox, 1963 (Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe, Malawi, eastern Tanzania)
  • C. v. meru van Someren, 1966 (Kenya: north-eastern slopes of Mount Kenya and in the Njombeni Hills)
  • C. v. violetta Grose-Smith, 1885 (southern Mozambique, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal)

Realm

Afrotropical realm

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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.
  3. "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013". Archived from the original on 2013-06-27.
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