| 词条 | Charaxes viola |
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| image = Charaxes viola picta male.jpg | image_caption = Charaxes viola picta male from the CAR | taxon = Charaxes viola | authority = Butler, 1866[1] | synonyms =
| image2 = }} Charaxes viola, the savanna demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.[2] The habitat consists of dry savanna and dry forests. Adults are attracted to fallen mangoes. The larvae feed on Entada gigas, Acacia mellifera, Albizia adianthifolia, Albizia coriaria, Entada abyssinica, Acacia amythethophylla, Albizia gummifera and Entada sudanica. DescriptionFemale. Upperside — front wings brown; outer margin reddish; a broad ferruginous band near the hind margin, interrupted above by a brown patch and by the nervures. Hindwings, basal half brown, apical half white tinted with blue green; outer margin brown, with orange upper edging, green below the outer tail; a submarginal row of violaceous lunules; two black spots at the anal angle. Underside only differs from C. ethalion in the brighter red of the submarginal lunules, in the central white band being only indicated by a paler shade of brown, and the less distinct black markings.[3] TaxonomyCharaxes viola is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles. Subspecies
References{{Commons}}{{Wikispecies}}1. ^"Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms 2. ^Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini 3. ^Butler, A.G. (1866a): Monograph of the species of Charaxes, a genus of diurnal Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865:622-639.
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