Charaxes pembanus

Charaxes pembanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Charaxinae
Tribe:	Charaxini
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. pembanus
Binomial name
	Charaxes pembanus; Jordan, 1925.
Synonyms
	Charaxes etheocles pembanus Jordan, 1925; Charaxes pembanus f. coelestissima Turlin, 1987;

Charaxes pembanus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Pemba Island, just off the east coast of Africa.^[3]

Description[]

Similar to Charaxes usambarae but with shorter tails, less dentate wing margins and the females with larger pale forewing spots.^[4]

The habitat consists of forest margins and woodland.

The larvae probably feed on Albizia species.

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

^ Jordan , K. 1925. On some subspecies of African Charaxes. Novitates Zoologicae 32: 288-289.
^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
^ Kielland, J. 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.

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] page 70 Plate 9, figures 67–68, 71–72.

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