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Charaxes viola (Butler, 1866)

Subspecies

  • [Charaxes] viola viola (Butler, 1866)
    - chiron (Staudinger, 1886)

  • [Charaxes] viola picta (van Someren & Jackson, 1952)
    - picta (Rothschild, 1900)
    - vansomereni (Poulton, 1926)
    - splendens (Rousseau-Decelle, 1938)
    - illuminata (Rousseau-Decelle, 1938)

Adult morphologyWingspan31
Literature referencesSpecies number (Larsen 2005)770
Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)460
HabitatHabitat preference [1]
SUD:
Centered on the Sudan Savannah and the Sahel, extending south as vagrants/migrants
SUD
DistributionGeographical distribution [2]
WWQ:
Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to most of the equatorial forest zone
WWQ

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

  • Fabaceae
    - Acacia
    - Albizia
    - Entada

  • Fabaceae
    - Acacia
    - Albizia
    - Entada

Charaxes viola (left)
Photographer: Wiebe Poppe

Records


1. ^ Larsen (2010)
2. ^ Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011