Charaxes tiridates tiridates ( Cramer, 1777 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3EB08193-954B-49BF-A989-1E73AC070E6B
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6068179
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scientific name	Charaxes tiridates tiridates ( Cramer, 1777 )
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*133. Charaxes tiridates tiridates ( Cramer, 1777) View in CoL

WL: 48mm. C. tiridates is a typical forest species formerly known from Senegal to southern Nigeria , and now reported from Guinea-Bissau for the first time. Other subspecies are known in the Equatorial Guinean Bioko Island and along tropical Africa to Ethiopia. The highly polyphagous caterpillars feed on Ulmaceae , Santalaceae , Fabaceae , Linaceae and Tiliaceae .

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió , 1 specimen (JB).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Nymphalidae
SubFamily	Charaxinae
Genus	Charaxes

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