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Charaxes nichetes

Synonyms: Charaxes hamatus; Charaxes ogovensis

Wikipedia Abstract

Charaxes nichetes, the Manx Charaxes or Water Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Angola. The habitat consists of forests, low altitude woodland savanna and Brachystegia woodland. Adults are attracted to fermenting fruit and males mud-puddle. Adults are on wing most of the year.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Uapaca nitida[1]
Uapaca sansibarica[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