Charaxes porthos
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. porthos |
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| Charaxes porthos Grose-Smith, 1883[1] | |
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Charaxes porthos, the Porthos Untailed Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.[2] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and drier forests.
Adults are attracted to fermented bananas.
Subspecies
- Charaxes porthos porthos (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo: Ubangi, Mongala, Uele, Tshopo, Kinshasa, Sankuru)
- Charaxes porthos dummeri Joicey & Talbot, 1922 (Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
- Charaxes porthos gallayi van Someren, 1968 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes porthos katangae Rousseau-Decelle, 1931 (Democratic Republic of Congo: Lualaba)
Taxonomy
Charaxes porthos is a member of the species group Charaxes lycurgus. The supposed clade members are
Clade 1
- Charaxes lycurgus Nominate
- Charaxes porthos
- Charaxes zelica
Clade 2
References
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Wikispecies has information related to: Charaxes porthos |
- ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. also as dunkeli
External links
- Images of C. porthos dummeri Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. porthos porthos (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. porthos katangae (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes porthos images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes porthos porthos images at BOLD
- Charaxes porthos dummeri images at BOLD
- Charaxes porthos galayi images at BOLD
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