Charaxes opinatus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu).[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Charaxinae |
| Tribe: | Charaxini |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. opinatus
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Description edit
Ch. opinatus Heron. male: almost exactly like that of etheocles in shape and size. Wings above black-brown ; forewing unicolorous without markings; hindwing with the tails and a continuous marginal line orange-red and before the distal margin with grey-blue, white-centred submarginal dots; about 6 mm. from the distal margin is placed between veins lb and 7 a transverse row of small, red-yellow, separated transverse streaks. The under surface strongly recalls that of anticlea, both wings having before the middle a darker, almost straight-edged transverse band about 5 mm. in breadth, which is curved round towards the base in cellule lc of the hindwing and more or less completely covers cellules la—lc. female: unknown. Ruwenzori. [4]
Biology edit
The habitat consists of montane forests.
The larvae feed on Caesalpinia species.
Taxonomy edit
Charaxes opinatus is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.
Realm edit
References edit
- ^ Heron , F.A. 1909. Zoological results of the Ruwenzori Expedition 1905-1906. Ruwenzori Expedition Reports 12. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 19: 141-178.
- ^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
- ^ Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1970 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 197-250.[1]
External links edit
- Images of C. opinatus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Charaxes opinatus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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