Charaxes chanleri

Charaxes chanleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species: C. chanleri
Binomial name
Charaxes chanleri
Holland, 1896[1]

Charaxes chanleri is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in north-central and northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia.[2] The habitat consists of savanna.

Description

Original description

CHARAXES CHANLERI, new species. This species comes nearer to C. kirkii, Butler, than any other, but maybe distinguished from that species by the fact that the secondaries [hindwings] have no red inclosed spots or curved dashes in the first four divisions of the marginal markings, as described by Dr. Butler; the submarginal series of lunulate spots are not white edged, as in Kirkii, and there is no discal lunulate green line as in Dr. Butler's species. The primaries [forewings] , moreover, are not shot with steel blue at the base. Expanse of wings, 65 mm.

Named for William A. Chanler.[3][4]

Four damaged males of this species in the National Museum collection. The species is allied to C. guderiana, Dewitz, resembling the latter in the form of the wings.

Vingerhoedt provides images[5]

Taxonomy

Considered conspecific with Charaxes kirki kirkii by Turlin and Vingerhoedt[5]

Etymology

Named to honour William A. Chanler

Ecozone

Afrotropical ecozone

References

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  1. ↑ Charaxes, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
  3. ↑ Orator Fuller Cook, East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1895.
  4. ↑ William Jacob Holland, List of the Lepidoptera collected in East Africa, 1894, by Mr. William Astor Chanler and Lieutenant Ludwig von Höhnel, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1896.
  5. 1 2 "African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt".


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