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Charaxes virilis

Wikipedia Abstract

Charaxes virilis, the blue demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and forest/savanna mosaic. The larvae feed on Adenanthera pavonina, Griffonia simplicifolia, Cathormium, Dalbergia, Entada and Tetrapleura species.
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Infraspecies

Charaxes virilis lenis
Charaxes virilis virilis

Prey / Diet

Adenanthera pavonina (red beadtree)[1]
Griffonia simplicifolia[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