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Charaxes tiridates subsp. tiridates Cramer 1777
Description
*133. Charaxes tiridates tiridates (Cramer, 1777)
WL: 48mm. C. tiridates is a typical forest species formerly known from Senegal to southern Nigeria, and now reported from Guinea-Bissau for the first time. Other subspecies are known in the Equatorial Guinean Bioko Island and along tropical Africa to Ethiopia. The highly polyphagous caterpillars feed on Ulmaceae, Santalaceae, Fabaceae, Linaceae and Tiliaceae.
Studied material. Cacheu: Caió, 1 specimen (JB).
Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.
Notes
Published as part of Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), pp. 1-77 in Zootaxa 4201 (1) on page 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/192215
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Charaxes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cramer
- Species
- tiridates
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Charaxes tiridates subsp. tiridates Cramer, 1777 sec. Bivar-De-Sousa, Vasconcelos, Mendes, Larsen, Baker & Guilherme, 2016
References
- Cramer, P. (1777) De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa, en America. Vol 2. S. J. Baalde, Amsteldam & W. Barthelemy, Utrecht, 151 pp.