Charaxes pleione
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C. p. pleione Bobiri Forest, Ghana |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. pleione |
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Charaxes pleione (Godart, 1824) |
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Charaxes pleione, the common orange charaxes, or square-winged red charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. The habitat consists of forests and woodland savanna.
The larvae feed on Acacia pennata and Acacia brevispica.
Charaxes pleione is a member of the species group Charaxes paphianus. The supposed clade members are:
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