Charaxes superbus

Charaxes superbus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. superbus
Binomial name
	Charaxes superbus; Schultze, 1909

Charaxes superbus, the superb white charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the north-western part of the Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic.^[3]

Description

Ch. superbus Arn. Schultze is very similar to nobilis, but differs in having the forewing narrower with the distal margin little excised, in the larger, dull sulphur-yellow marginal spots of the forewing, in the blue-grey band, up to 4 mm. in breadth, which in cellules 2-6 separates the median band of the hindwing from the black marginal band, in the larger and more complete white transverse spots in the cell of the forewing beneath, in the black, white-spotted marginal band on the underside of the hindwing, which is only half as broad as in nobilis (about 5 mm.) and is proximally bounded by an orange-yellow band 5 mm. in breadth in cellule 2, and in the white markings in the apical half of the fore wing beneath. In superbus the median band on the underside of the forewing covers the base of cellule 3 and then follows a white band, about 5 mm. in breadth, in cellules 3-6, a broad transverse spot, formed as in nobilis , in cellules 5-7 and finally before the distal margin in cellules lb-7 seven crescentic spots of uniform breadth, of which those in cellules lb and 2 are orange and the rest silvery white. Cameroons. Schultze observed this beautiful species drinking in a native latrine. ^[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

Taxonomy

Charaxes nobilis group.

The supposed clade members are:

Charaxes nobilis - very like next
Charaxes superbus - very like last

References

^ Schultze, A. 1909 Eine neue Charaxes-Art aus Kamerun. Societas Entomologica 23: 172-173
^ "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 2012-05-23.
^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die GroÃŸschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen GroÃŸschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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]

External links

Charaxes superbus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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[1] Schultze, A. 1909 Eine neue Charaxes-Art aus Kamerun. Societas Entomologica 23: 172-173

[funet-2] "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-3] "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-23.

[4] Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die GroÃŸschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen GroÃŸschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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