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Charaxes pelias (Protea Emperor)

Synonyms: Charaxes pelopia; Charaxes pollux (heterotypic); Papilio pelias

Wikipedia Abstract

The Protea Emperor or Protea Charaxes (Charaxes pelias) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in South Africa. The wingspan is 60–70 mm in males and 65–75 mm in females. It has successive broods from September to April. The larvae feed on Hypocalyptus obcordatus, Osyris compressa, Osyris lanceolata, and Rafnia species.
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♦ 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