Charaxes virilis, the blue demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.[3] The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and forest/savanna mosaic.
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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. virilis
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The larvae feed on Adenanthera pavonina, Griffonia simplicifolia, Cathormium, Dalbergia, Entada and Tetrapleura species.
Taxonomy edit
Charaxes virilis is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.
Subspecies edit
- C. v. virilis (Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Burkina Faso. Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- C. v. lenis Henning, 1989 [4] (Uganda)
References edit
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- ^ Van Someren , V.G.L. & Jackson, T.H.E. 1952. The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex: a tentative reclassification of the group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 103: 257-284.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Henning, , G.A. 1989. in Henning, , G.A. 1989. The Charaxinae butterflies of Africa 257 (457 pp.). Johannesburg.
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 75-166.[1]
External links edit
- Images of C. virilis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Ghana Butterflies images
- Charaxes virilis images (Consortium for the Barcode of Life)
- C. v. lena images BOLD
- C. v. virilis images BOLD
- C. v. virilis f. blandini images BOLD
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