| Species name | Charaxes eupale (Drury, 1782) ƒAƒIƒtƒ^ƒIƒ`ƒ‡ƒE Common green charaxes. |
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| Taxonomy | Papilio
eupale
Drury, 1782. Illustrations of Natural
History 3: index et 7 (76 pp.). Type locality: |
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| Distribution |
Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi. | ||
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| Biology |
Host plant: Scutia myrtina (Burm.) f. Kurz (Rhamnaceae) [Van Someren, 1974:
321]. |
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| Nigeria |
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| References |
Charaxes, Site of Markku SavelaBouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt
, 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un
nouveau genre, revision et approche genetique (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae,
Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors serie n‹3, 2008. Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 32 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. [1] Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe eupale : description dfun nouveau genre, revision et approche genetique (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologica Africana Hors Serie 3:1-32. |