Charaxes viola (Butler, 1866)

Subspecies

• [Charaxes] viola viola (Butler, 1866)
  - chiron (Staudinger, 1886)
  


• [Charaxes] viola picta (van Someren & Jackson, 1952)
  - picta (Rothschild, 1900)
  - vansomereni (Poulton, 1926)
  - splendens (Rousseau-Decelle, 1938)
  - illuminata (Rousseau-Decelle, 1938)
  

Adult morphology	Wingspan	31
Literature references	Species number (Larsen 2005)	770
	Page number (Ackery et al. 1995)	460
Habitat	Habitat preference [1]	SUD: Centered on the Sudan Savannah and the Sahel, extending south as vagrants/migrants SUD
Distribution	Geographical distribution [2]	WWQ: Found in both the Liberia and Ghana subregions and extending to most of the equatorial forest zone WWQ

Biology

Flight period:

Ecology

Host plants:

• Fabaceae
  - Acacia
  - Albizia
  - Entada

• Fabaceae
  - Acacia
  - Albizia
  - Entada