Species name	Charaxes macclounii Butler, 1895 Wild-bamboo charaxes; red coast charaxes.
Taxonomy	Charaxes macclounii.  Male.  Left – upperside; right – underside.  Wingspan: 58mm.  Bomponi, Vumba, S. R.  8.7.59.  H. Cookson.  (Transvaal Museum - TM3343). Type locality: Malawi: “Zomba”.
Subspecies
Distribution	Kenya (coast), Tanzania (south, west and east), Democratic Republic of Congo (Tshopo, Lualaba, Shaba), Angola (north-east), Burundi, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe (eastern border and north).
Distribution Map
Biology	Host plant: Oxytenanthera abyssinica (A. Rich.) Munro (Poaceae) [Gifford, 1965: 94]. Arundinaria species (Poaceae) [Van Son, 1979: 151]. Oreobambos buchwaldii K. Schum. (Poaceae) [Pringle, et al., 1994: 87]. Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex Wendl. (Poaceae) [Pringle, et al., 1994: 87]. Sinarundinaria alpina (Poaceae) [Kielland, 1990: 106; as Arundinaria alpina].
Nigeria
References	Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1963). Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 195-242.