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| name = Club-tailed emperor
| image = Seitz Plate 32CharaxesZoolina.jpg
| image_caption = Male wet-season form and female dry-season form (as neanthes)
| taxon = Charaxes zoolina
| authority = (Westwood, [1850])
| synonyms =- Nymphalis zoolina Westwood, [1850]
- Nymphalis neanthes Hewitson, 1854
- Charaxes neanthes obscuratus Suffert, 1904
- Charaxes zoolina-neanthes f. homochroa Le Cerf, 1923
- Charaxes neanthes f. pallidior Rousseau-Decelle, 1938
- Charaxes betsimisaraka Lucas, 1872
- Charaxes betanimena Lucas, 1872
- Charaxes andriba Ward, 1873
- Charaxes relatus Butler, 1880
- Nymphalis freyi Brancsik, 1892
- Charaxes zoolina-betsimisaraka f. firmus Le Cerf, 1923
- Charaxes lambertoni Lathy, 1925
- Charaxes zoolina f. franouxi Rousseau-Decelle, 1938
- Charaxes ehmckei Homeyer & Dewitz, 1882
- Charaxes zoolina f. phanera Jordan, 1908
- Charaxes zoolina ehmckei lineata Bivar de Sousa, 1992
- Charaxes zoolina mafugensis f. kivu Turlin, 1980
- Charaxes zoolina mafugensis f. wincka Turlin, 1980
}}Charaxes zoolina, the club-tailed emperor or club-tailed charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Africa.[1]The wingspan is 40–45 mm in males and 50–58 mm in females. Flight period is from October to June.[2] Larvae feed on Entada - Entada spicata, Entada abyssinica, Entada natalensis, Acacia natalitia, Acacia schweinfurthi, Acacia brevispica, and Acacia kraussiana.[1][2] SubspeciesListed alphabetically.[1] - C. z. betsimisaraka Lucas, 1872 (Madagascar)
- C. z. ehmckei Dewitz, 1882 (Angola)
- C. z. mafugensis Jackson, 1956 (south-western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, north-western Tanzania)
- C. z. zoolina (Westwood, [1850]) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, northern Botswana, north-eastern Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland)
TaxonomyCharaxes zoolina is a member of the species group Charaxes zoolina. The clade members are - Charaxes zoolina Nominate
- Charaxes kahldeni
The group differs from all the others in Charaxes in the male having a tail on vein 2, but the female having two long tails on veins 2, 4. There are two different forms, one with black markings on a greenish white base colour (wet-season form) and one with reddish-brown markings on red-yellow whitish colour (dry-season form). These forms can be from eggs of the same female. References1. ^1 2 "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. ^1 {{cite book|last=Woodhall |first=Steve |title=Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa |year=2005 |location=Cape Town, South Africa |publisher=Struik |isbn=978-1-86872-724-7 }}
- [https://archive.org/stream/diegrossschmett13seit#page/n73/mode/2up/search/charaxes Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 32] b
- Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127336#page/511/mode/1up]
External links- Images of C. zoolina zoolina Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- Images of C. zoolina mafugensis (Albertine Rift Project)
- Pteron Images
- Images at Bold Charaxes zoolina
- Bold images Charaxes zoolina zoolina
- Bold images Charaxes zoolina betsimisaraka
- Charaxes mafugensis images at BOLD
- Charaxes ehmckei images at BOLD
- Charaxes betsimisaraka images at BOLD
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