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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
Charaxes viola (left)
Photographer: Wiebe Poppe
Records
1.
^
Larsen (2010)
2.
^
Larsen (2010)
last modified 2 August 2011