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Charaxes harmodius

Charaxes harmodius is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.

Charaxes harmodius is a large coppery butterfly with concave forewings with a brown apex and border and hindwings with a very small tail decorated with a submarginal line of dark brown dots with white pupils, the first a patch including two pupils of white. The reverse is coppery brown suffused with purple.

Subspecies

  • Charaxes harmodius harmodius (Java)
  • Charaxes harmodius martinus <small>Rothschild, 1900</small> (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)
  • Charaxes harmodius infernus <small>Rothschild, 1903</small> (Borneo)
  • Charaxes harmodius harpagon <small>Staudinger, 1889</small> (Palawan)
  • Charaxes harmodius maruyamai <small>Hanafusa, 1987</small> (Peninsular Malaysia)
  • Charaxes harmodius shiloi <small>Hanafusa, 1994</small> (Laos)

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