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Charaxes eupale (Common Green Charaxes)

Synonyms: Papilio amasia; Papilio eupale

Wikipedia Abstract

Charaxes eupale, the Common Green Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests. The larvae feed on Scutia myrtina, Albizia gummifera, Albizia zygia, Albizia adianthifolia and Cathormion species.
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Infraspecies

Charaxes eupale citrinella
Charaxes eupale eupale
Charaxes eupale inornata
Charaxes eupale latimargo
Charaxes eupale schultzei

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.968 inches (.05 m)

Prey / Diet

Pericopsis elata (African Teak)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Borghesio, L., & Wagura, L. The Common Butterflies of the Mathews Range, Cheli & Peacock Community Trust
♦ 2Jorrit 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