Charaxes subornatus, the ornate green charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya. The habitat consists of evergreen forests.
The larvae feed on Albizia - A. brownei, A. gummifera and A. zygia.
Subspecies
- Charaxes subornatus subornatus (eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern and western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
- Charaxes subornatus couilloudi <small>Plantrou, 1976</small> (Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
- Charaxes subornatus minor <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1921</small> (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, north-western Kenya) is considered by some authorities to be a full species
Similar species
Charaxes subornatus is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade). The clade members are:
Bouyer et al., 2008 erected the genus Viridixes Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2008 to accommodate species belonging to the eupale species group.
Realm
Afrotropical realm
References
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127336#page/511/mode/1up
- Bouyer, T., Zakharov, E., Rougerie, R. & Vingerhoedt, E. (2008): Les Charaxes du groupe eupale : description dâÂÂun nouveau genre, révision et approche génétique (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) Entomologica Africana Hors Série 3:1-32.
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