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    Charaxes williami

    Topic: Biology

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    Short description: Species of butterfly

    Charaxes williami
    Scientific classification edit
    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Arthropoda
    Class: Insecta
    Order: Lepidoptera
    Family: Nymphalidae
    Genus: Charaxes
    Species:
    C. williami
    Binomial name
    Charaxes williami
    Henning, 2002[1][2]

    Charaxes williami is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in northern Zambia.[3][4] The habitat consists of evergreen forests.

    Both sexes are attracted to fermenting fruit and fermenting sap from injured trees.

    The larvae feed on Acacia amythethophylla.

    References

    1. ↑ Henning, S.F. , 2002 in Heath, A., Newport, M.A., & Hancock, D. 2002. The butterflies of Zambia. African Butterfly Research Institute and The Lepidopterists’ Society of Africa. i-xvii, 1-137.
    2. ↑ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
    3. ↑ Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini
    4. ↑ Williams, M.C. 2006. Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region (Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)[1]

    External links

    Wikidata ☰ Q5074132 entry




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