Charaxes eupale

Charaxes eupale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. eupale
Binomial name
Charaxes eupale
(Drury, 1782)[1][2]
Synonyms
  • Papilio eupale Drury, 1782
  • Papilio amasia Fabricius, 1793
  • Charaxes schultzei Röber, 1936
  • Charaxes eupale f. citrinella Rousseau-Decelle, 1938
  • Charaxes eupale f. inornata Storace, 1948
  • Charaxes dilutus veneris White & Grant, 1989
  • Charaxes dilutus kasitu White & Grant, 1989[3]
  • Charaxes dilutus ngonga van Someren, 1974[3]

Charaxes eupale, the common green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.[4]

  1. ^ Drury, D. 1782. Illustrations of Natural History 3: xxvi, 1-769 + 2pp. London
  2. ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ a b Bouyer, Zakharov, Rougerie & Vingerhoedt , 2008 Les Charaxes du "groupe eupale" : Description d'un nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lépidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologia Africana Hors série n°3, 2008.
  4. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-23.