''Charaxes acuminatus'', the pointed pearl charaxes or mountain pearl charaxes, is a
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 ...
Uganda
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Rwanda
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Burundi
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Kenya
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Tanzania
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Malawi
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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Characterized, as the specific name implies, by the acuminate forewings Forewing with the distal margin deeply excised and long, sharp, falcate apex. The orange or red-brown spots in the black marginal area small or indistinct. German East Africa.
Biology
The habitat consists of
afromontane forests
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Charaxes varanes
''Charaxes varanes'', the pearl emperor, Karkloof emperor, or pearl charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in Africa from Saudi Arabia to South Africa.Charaxes varanes
''Charaxes varanes'', the pearl emperor, Karkloof emperor, or pearl charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in Africa from Saudi Arabia to South Africa.Charaxes fulvescens'' very similar to ''varanes''
*''Charaxes acuminatus'' very pointed forewing
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Charaxes analava
''Charaxes analava'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. The habitat consists of Afrotropical forests.
Description
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Charaxes nicati
''Charaxes nicati'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the Comoros.
Taxonomy
''Charaxes varanes'' group. Subgenus ''Stonehamia'' (''Hadrodontes'').
The group members are:
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Charaxes bertrami
''Charaxes varanes'', the pearl emperor, Karkloof emperor, or pearl charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in Africa from Saudi Arabia to South Africa.Charaxes saperanus
''Charaxes saperanus'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Mayotte, an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of southeast Africa. The habitat consists of dry forests and patches of vegetation between plantations.
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Charaxes defulvata
''Charaxes defulvata'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on the island of São Tomé. The habitat consists of forests. The species of butterfly was named by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1926.
Taxonomy
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Subspecies
*''C. a. acuminatus'' (Tanzania, northern Malawi)
*''C. a. cottrelli'' van Someren, 1963 (north-western Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: from the south-east to Shaba)
*''C. a. kigezia'' van Someren, 1963 (western Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, north-western Tanzania)
*''C. a. kulalae'' van Someren, 1975 (northern Kenya)
*''C. a. mlanji'' van Someren, 1963 (southern Malawi)
*''C. a. nyika'' van Someren, 1963 (Malawi: Nyika Plateau, north-eastern Zambia)
*''C. a. oreas'' Talbot, 1932 (Kenya: central highlands east of the Rift Valley)
*''C. a. rondonis'' Kielland, 1987 (south-eastern Tanzania)
*''C. a. shimbanus'' van Someren, 1963 (south-eastern coast of Kenya)
*''C. a. stonehamiana'' Collins & Larsen, 1991 (western Kenya)
*''C. a. teitensis'' van Someren, 1963 (south-eastern Kenya, Tanzania: north to
Mount Kilimanjaro
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*''C. a. thiryi'' Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2001Bouyer, T., & Vingerhoedt, E. 2001. Description d’une nouvelle sous-espece de ''Charaxes acuminatus'' Thurau, 1903 (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae). ''Entomologia Africana '' 6 (1): 26-30. (Democratic Republic of Congo)
*''C. a. usambarensis'' van Someren, 1963 (north-eastern Tanzania)
*''C. a. vumba'' van Someren, 1963 (eastern Zimbabwe)
* Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1963). Revisional notes on African ''Charaxes'' (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part I. ''Bulletin of the British Museum'' (Natural History) (Entomology) 195-242