Charaxes pembanus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Pemba Island, just off the east coast of Africa.[3]

Description

Similar to Charaxes usambarae but with shorter tails, less dentate wing margins and the females with larger pale forewing spots.[4]

Biology

The habitat consists of forest margins and woodland.

The larvae probably feed on Albizia species.

Taxonomy

Charaxes pembanus is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

References

  1. ^ Jordan , K. 1925. On some subspecies of African Charaxes. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 288-289.
  2. ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  4. ^ Kielland, J. 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.
  • Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1966 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 45–101.[1] page 70 Plate 9, figures 67–68, 71–72.


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