Charaxes (Charaxes) ansorgei kilimanjarica van Someren, 1967

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 865-904 : 887

Charaxes (Charaxes) ansorgei kilimanjarica van Someren, 1967

Henning 1989: 112 (1 fig.). d ’ Abrera 2004: 464 (2 figs). SI: Figure 22a – h.

Forewing length: male 38 – 41 mm [mean (n = 2) 39.40 mm, SD = 1.154]; female 43 – 47 mm [mean (n = 2) 45.10 mm, SD = 1.310]. van Someren (1967, p. 309) gave male forewing length as 38 mm, female 45 mm.

Note. See Appendix 6 regarding the type material of this taxon.

Records

Known only from the type locality: ‘ Western foot hills, 6 – 7000 ft., Kilimanjaro ’ ( van Someren 1967, p. 309; Henning 1989, p. 112). This subspecies appears endemic to Kilimanjaro ( de Jong and Congdon 1993, appendix 8.2), but was not encountered by Liseki (2009). According to Kielland (1990, p. 95), most if not all of the several subspecies of C. ansorgei Rothschild, 1897 , recognized to occur in Tanzania have been recorded up to 2000 m or higher. If this population survives on Kilimanjaro, it probably flies within the lowest zone of the forest reserve. Collectively, the 11 subspecies listed by Ackery et al. (1995, p. 433) are found in montane and submontane forests from Kenya and Uganda to eastern DRC and Malawi.