Charaxes Plantroui
''Charaxes plantroui'', the pink-washed demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in eastern Guinea, Sierra Leone, northern and central Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria. The habitat consists of drier forests and dense Guinean forest-savanna mosaic, Guinea savanna. It is locally common in its habitat.Larsen, T.B. 2005 ''Butterflies of West Africa''. Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark The larvae feed on ''Albizia zygia'', ''Albizia adianthifolia'', ''Afzelia africana'', ''Griffonia simplicifolia'', ''Andira inermis'' and ''Dalbergia saxatilis''. References External linksImages of ''C. plantroui ''Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)''Charaxes plantroui'' imagesat Consortium for the Barcode of Life includes Type (biology), paratype''Charaxes plantroui'' f. ''simonae'' imagesat BOLD''Charaxes plantroui guioi'' images
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Butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily (zoology), superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs o ...
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