Charaxes hansali

Cream-banded Charaxes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. hansali
Binomial name
Charaxes hansali Felder, 1867[1]
Synonyms
Charaxes hansalii Charaxes achaemenes ab. minor Storace, 1948 Charaxes hansalii kulalensis van Someren, 1971

Charaxes hansali, the Cream-banded Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.^[2] The habitat consists of arid savanna.

The larvae feed on Salvadora persica, Osyris lanceolata, Colpoon compressum and Dobera glabra.

Subspecies

• C. h. hansali (northern, eastern and south-eastern Ethiopia, Somalia: north to the Wagga Mountains)
• C. h. arabica Riley, 1931 (Oman)
• C. h. baringana Rothschild, 1905 (Tanzania: southern shores of Lake Victoria, eastern Rwanda, Kenya, northern Uganda, southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia)
• C. h. kulalae van Someren, 1975 (Kenya: Mount Kulal, Ethiopia: south to Nighelli)
• C. h. yemeni Turlin, 1998 (Yemen)

Taxonomy

The members of the Charaxes jasius group are:

• Charaxes jasius
• Charaxes pelias – smaller than jasius
• Charaxes hansali
• Charaxes castor
• Charaxes brutus – dark with white bands
• Charaxes andara – Madagascar
• Charaxes ansorgei
• Charaxes phoebus
• Charaxes pollux
• Charaxes druceanus
• Charaxes phraortes – Madagascar, close to next
• Charaxes andranodorus – close to last
• Charaxes eudoxus
• Charaxes richelmanni

References

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Wikispecies has information related to: Charaxes hansali

• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)181-226.

External links

• Charaxes hanseli hanseli images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Charaxes hansali baringana images at BOLD
• Charaxes hansali yemeni images at BOLD verso