Charaxes thysi

Charaxes thysi
	In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. thysi
Binomial name
	Charaxes thysi; Capronnier, 1889[1][2]
Synonyms
	Charaxes thysii;

Charaxes thysi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[3][4]

Description

Ch. thysi Capronn. male above black with intensive blue reflection; both wings beyond the middle with a common dark blue transverse band, on the hindwing 6 mm. in breadth, on the forewing somewhat narrower and broken up into spots; hindwing with white submarginal dots and bluish marginal streaks. This remarkably beautiful but very rare species differs from all other African forms in its bright silvery under surface, which is divided beyond the middle by a red-brown, black-spotted transverse band 2—-3 mm. in breadth. The female is unknown. Congo. [5]

Biology

The habitat consists of forests.

Taxonomy

Charaxes thysi is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.

Realm

Afrotropical realm

References

Capronnier, [J.B.] 1889a. Liste des Lépidoptères capturés au Congo. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1889: 118-127.
"Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
Minig, André; Plantrou, Jacques (1975). "Note sur Charaxes kheili Staudinger et Charaxes northeotti W. Rothschild, avec les descriptions des femelles [Lep. Nymphalidae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 80 (9): 275–285. doi:10.3406/bsef.1975.21488. ISSN 0037-928X. S2CID 203152968.
Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)215-264.

External links

Images of C. thysi Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
Charaxes thysi images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life including Holotype
External images

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[1] Capronnier, [J.B.] 1889a. Liste des Lépidoptères capturés au Congo. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1889: 118-127.

[funet-2] "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[ATBUT-3] Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini

[4] Minig, André; Plantrou, Jacques (1975). "Note sur Charaxes kheili Staudinger et Charaxes northeotti W. Rothschild, avec les descriptions des femelles [Lep. Nymphalidae]". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. 80 (9): 275–285. doi:10.3406/bsef.1975.21488. ISSN 0037-928X. S2CID 203152968.

[5] Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.