Charaxes tiridates

Charaxes tiridates
Female, upperside
Female, underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. tiridates
Binomial name
Charaxes tiridates (Cramer, 1777)
Synonyms
Papilio tiridates Cramer, 1777 Papilio marica Fabricius, 1793 Charaxes tiridatinus Röber, 1936 Charaxes tiridates ab. tristis Schultze, 1914 Charaxes angusticaudatus Röber, 1936 Charaxes tiridates f. purpurina Rousseau-Decelle, 1938 Charaxes lucretius f. alberici Dufrane, 1945 Charaxes tiridates ab. conjuncta Storace, 1948 Charaxes tiridates ab. subcaerulea Storace, 1948 Charaxes hysginus Darge, 1978

Charaxes tiridates, the common blue charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola and Zambia. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and dense savanna.

The larvae feed on Phialodiscus unijugatus, Hugonia platysepala, Hugonia castaneifolia, Bombax reflexum, Chaetacme aristata, Celtis africana, Celtis durandi, Grewia tricocarpa, Grewia mollis, Afzelia africana, Flacourtia indica, Indigofera macrophylla, Osyris lanceolata, Blighia unijugata, Grewia forbesi, Bombax buonopozense, Albizia, Berlinia, Lonchocarpus, Hibiscus (including Hibiscus calyphyllus), Trema, Cassia, Dalbergia, Macrolobium, Millettia and Pterocarpus species.

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