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Charaxes Ochsenheimer 1816

Andrew V. Z. Brower
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Charaxes candiope sucking tree sap
Containing group: Charaxini

Introduction

Big, beautiful Charaxes butterflies - the most diverse genus in Africa? Or maybe the most oversplit. Ackery et al. (1995) state, "No group of African butterflies arouses stronger emotions than Charaxes." Gaining an understanding of their phylogenetic relationships will add a new chapter to their convoluted literature.

The bulk of the list is Afrotropical taxa. The species listed after C. zoolina are the ones from India, Indomalaya and the indonesian archipelago to New Guinea.

References

Ackery PR, Smith CR, and Vane-Wright RI eds. 1995. Carcasson's African butterflies. Canberra: CSIRO.

Corbet AS, Pendlebury HM, and Eliot JN. 1992. The butterflies of the Malay Peninsula. Malayan Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.

Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.

Vane-Wright RI, and de Jong R. 2003. The butterflies of Sulawesi: annotated checklist for a critical island fauna. Zoologische Verhandelingen 343: 1-267.

Information on the Internet

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Charaxes candiope sucking tree sap
Scientific Name Charaxes candiope
Location Gombe National Park, Tanzania
Comments These butterflies were clustered round an oozing wound in a tree-trunk. The species was also seen on civet dung.
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Identified By David Bygott
Behavior Feeding
Life Cycle Stage Adult
View Dorsal/lateral
Copyright © 2005
Scientific Name Charaxes jasius
Location near Iraklio, Crete, Greece
Specimen Condition Live Specimen
Source Hanging on
Source Collection Flickr
ToL Image Use creative commons This image is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Creative Commons License.
Copyright © 2006 Stavros Markopoulos
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Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA

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Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2007. Charaxes Ochsenheimer 1816. Version 06 November 2007 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Charaxes/70521/2007.11.06 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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