Charaxes lycurgus (original) (raw)
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Species of butterfly
| Charaxes lycurgus | |
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Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. lycurgus |
| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes lycurgus(Fabricius, 1793).[1][2] | |
| Synonyms | |
| Papilio lycurgus Fabricius, 1793 Papilio laodice Drury, 1782 Nymphalis nesiope Hewitson, 1854 |
Charaxes lycurgus, the Laodice untailed charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania.[3] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and riverine forests.
Riverine forest at the Congo-Uganda border
The larvae feed on Pterocarpus santalinoides, Paullinia pinnata, Albizia zygia, Lonchocarpus cyanescens, Dalbergia, Millettia, Dichapetalum and Trachyphrynium species.
- Charaxes lycurgus lycurgus (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes lycurgus bernardiana Plantrou, 1978 [4](northern and eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Bioko, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Sudan, western Uganda, Tanzania: eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika)
Differs from Charaxes zelica in the deeply concave margin of the forewing, the hindwing blue spots are closer to the margin and the presence of submarginal blue spots on the forewing [5]
Charaxes lycurgus 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
- ^ Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta 3 (1): [vi], 1-488. Hafniae.
- ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
- ^ Plantrou, J. 1978 Note sur les Charaxes du groupe ‘_porthos-zelica_’ et nouvelle revision de la taxonomie du groupe (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France (N.S.) 14 (3): 515-533.
- ^ Kielland, J. 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.
- 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] as laodice
- Images of C. lycurgus lycurgus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes lycurgus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Charaxes lycurgus lycurgus images at BOLD
- Charaxes lycurgus bernardiana images at BOLD