Charaxes mars

Iron rajah
	Male
	Female C. m. madensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. mars
Binomial name
	Charaxes mars; Staudinger, 1885
Synonyms
	Charaxes mars var. dohertyi Rothschild, 1892; Charaxes madensis Rothschild, 1899;

Charaxes mars, the iron rajah, is a butterfly of the rajahs and nawabs group, i.e. the Charaxinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. It is endemic to Sulawesi in central Indonesia.[1] Charaxes mars is a large butterfly with forewings with concave outer edge and hindwings each with a tail. The upper side of the forewings is dark blue and light in the basal part. The hindwings are orange with a submarginal line of dark brown ocelli.

Technical description

male Tawny colour of upperside of hindwing not reaching in front of R1; black postdisco-submarginal patches all fused together (except dots M2S-M2), patch M1-M2 elongate, vein R3 and outer half of M1 black, tawny admarginal interspaces SC2- R2 faintly indicated; tail shorter than in mars dohertyifemale Unknown. madensis male Unknown. Most likely resembling that of Ch. mars.

female. Allied to Ch.mars. Upperside Forewing: blackish brown, no blue tone, white discal band broader than Ch. mars.[2]

Races

Charaxes mars mars (northern Sulawesi)
Charaxes mars dohertyi Rothschild, 1892 (southern Sulawesi)
Charaxes mars madensis Rothschild, 1899 (Buru)

References

"Point Map of Charaxes mars". Discover Life. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1898). A monograph of Charaxes and the allied prionopterous genera. Novitates Zoologicae 1900 Volume 7:287-524. [4] Descriptions and plates (monochrome photos). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[map-1] "Point Map of Charaxes mars". Discover Life. Retrieved 22 November 2013.

[2] Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1898). A monograph of Charaxes and the allied prionopterous genera. Novitates Zoologicae 1900 Volume 7:287-524. [4] Descriptions and plates (monochrome photos). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.