Charaxes harmodius is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]
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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. harmodius
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Charaxes harmodius is a large coppery butterfly with concave forewings with a brown apex and border and hindwings with a very small tail decorated with a submarginal line of dark brown dots with white pupils, the first a patch including two pupils of white. The reverse is coppery brown suffused with purple.
Subspecies
edit- Charaxes harmodius harmodius (Java)
- Charaxes harmodius martinus Rothschild, 1900 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)
- Charaxes harmodius infernus Rothschild, 1903 (Borneo)
- Charaxes harmodius harpagon Staudinger, 1889 (Palawan)
- Charaxes harmodius maruyamai Hanafusa, 1987 (Peninsular Malaysia)
- Charaxes harmodius shiloi Hanafusa, 1994 (Laos)
References
edit- ^ Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls.
- ^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes harmodius.
- Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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