Charaxes baumanni, the little charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Sudan, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of open forests and woodland.
Both sexes visit fermenting fruit and also animal scats. Adults are on wing year round.
The larvae feed on Acacia brevispica, Acacia seyal, Acacia brevispica, Pterolobium stellatum and Caesalpinia decapetala.
Ch. baumanni Rghfr. male: hindwing above beyond the middle between veins 2 and 7 with a light blue transverse band, in the middle about 5 mm. in breadth, anteriorly narrowed, which is also continued on the forewing but is there much narrower and broken up into small spots; forewing otherwise unmarked, but the hindwing with white-centred submarginal spots and greenish (in cellules 4âÂÂ6 orange-yellow) marginal streaks. The fine black median line of the under surface is also continuous on the forewing to the costal margin, straight and on both wings distally bordered with whitish. In the female the transverse band on the upper surface is pure white, somewhat further from the distal margin and continuous to vein 4 of the forewing, then divided into two rows of spots. Manicaland, Nyassaland and German East Africa. A full description is given by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan, 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:287-524. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3267025/#page/295/mode/1up page 491-492 (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/22556#page/9/mode/1up)
Charaxes baumanni is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles