Charaxes amycus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1861. It is endemic to the Philippines in the Indomalayan realm.[2]
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| Charaxes amycus bayani | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. amycus
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Description
editCharaxes amycus is a large butterfly (wingspan 60– 68 mm.) The upperside ground colour is coppery rufous. There is a broad brown marginal band on the forewings and two tails on each hindwing.
Subspecies
edit- C. a. amycus (Philippines: Luzon)
- C. a. georgius Staudinger, 1892 (Philippines: Mindoro)
- C. a. carolus Rothschild, 1900 (Philippines: Mindanao, Camiguin de Mindanao)
- C. a. myron Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Philippines: Polillo, Guimaras)
- C. a. negrosensis Schröder & Treadaway, 1982 (Philippines: Negros)
- C. a. bayani Schröder & Treadaway, 1982 (Marinduque)
- C. a. theobaldo Schröder & Treadaway, 1982 (Philippines: Panay)
- C. a. marion Schröder & Treadaway, 1981 (Philippines: Sibuyan, Romblon Group)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes amycus.
- Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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