Charaxes chanleri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-central and northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of arid Acacia savanna.
| Charaxes chanleri | |
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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. chanleri
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| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes chanleri | |
Original description edit
In 1895, William Jacob Holland wrote:
Charaxes chanleri, new species.
This species comes nearer to C. kirkii, Butler, than any other, but maybe distinguished from that species by the fact that the secondaries [hindwings] have no red inclosed spots or curved dashes in the first four divisions of the marginal markings, as described by Dr. Butler; the submarginal series of lunulate spots are not white edged, as in Kirkii, and there is no discal lunulate green line as in Dr. Butler's species. The primaries [forewings], moreover, are not shot with steel blue at the base.
Expanse of wings, 65 mm.
Four damaged males of this species in the National Museum collection. The species is allied to C. guderiana, Dewitz, resembling the latter in the form of the wings.[3]
Vingerhoedt provides images[4]
Taxonomy edit
Considered conspecific with Charaxes kirki kirkii by Turlin and Vingerhoedt.[4]
Etymology edit
It was named for William A. Chanler, one of the collectors.[5]
Realm edit
References edit
- ^ "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 2012-05-24.
- ^ Holland, W. J. (1896). "List of the Lepidoptera collected in Somali-Land, East Africa, by Mr. William Astor Chanler and Lieutenant Von Hoehnel". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 18 (1063). Smithsonian Institution Press: 263. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.1063.259. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
- ^ a b "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt". Archived from the original on 2013-06-16.
- ^ Orator Fuller Cook, East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1895.
External links edit
- African Butterfly Database Range map via search
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