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Charaxes pollux

Synonyms: Charaxes pollussa; Papilio camulus; Papilio castor (heterotypic); Papilio pollux (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Charaxes pollux, the Black-bordered Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Angola, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. The habitat consists of forests, gallery forests and heavy woodland. Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and sucking-trees. Adults are probably on wing year round.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Deinbollia borbonica[1]
Deinbollia kilimandscharica[1]
Phyllanthus glaucus (common bushweed)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0