Charaxes gallagheri

Charaxes gallagheri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. gallagheri
Binomial name
	Charaxes gallagheri; van Son, 1962

Charaxes gallagheri, the Gallagher's charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in central and eastern Zimbabwe and Zambia.^[3] The habitat consists of granite-boulder hills in savanna.

There are two generations per year with adults on wing from November to December and again from late February to April.

The larvae feed on .

Taxonomy[]

Charaxes gallagheri is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

References[]

^ Van Son, G. 1962. New African butterflies – 1 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 25: 140-148.
^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini

Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1966 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 45-101.[1]

External links[]

Charaxes gallagheri images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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[1] Van Son, G. 1962. New African butterflies – 1 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 25: 140-148.

[funet-2] "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-3] Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini

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