Charaxes mixtus explained

Charaxes mixtus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania.^[1]

Description

Ch. mixtus Rothsch. The male is very similar to that of tiridates and only differs in having the marginal spots of the forewing short and whitish and the marginal streaks of the hindwing thick, undivided, blue; the blue spots behind the middle of the hindwing are also much larger than in tiridates. The female is considerably larger than the male but similar in colour and markings, hence entirely different from tiridates female . Cameroons and Congo. ^[2]

Biology

The habitat consists of lowland forests.

Notes on the biology of mixtus are given by Kielland (1990)^[3]

Taxonomy

Charaxes tiridates group

The supposed clade members are:

• Charaxes tiridates
• Charaxes numenes similar to next
• Charaxes bipunctatus similar to last
• Charaxes violetta
• Charaxes fuscus
• Charaxes mixtus
• Charaxes bubastis
• Charaxes albimaculatus
• Charaxes barnsi
• Charaxes bohemani
• Charaxes schoutedeni
• Charaxes monteiri
• Charaxes smaragdalis
• Charaxes xiphares
• Charaxes cithaeron
• Charaxes nandina
• Charaxes imperialis
• Charaxes ameliae
• Charaxes pythodoris
• ? Charaxes overlaeti

For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.^[4]

Subspecies

• Charaxes mixtus mixtus (Cameroon, south-western Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Charaxes mixtus tanzanicus Kielland, 1988^[5] (north-western Tanzania)

References

• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)215-264.https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127337#page/273/mode/1up also as Charaxes bubastis

External links

• Images of C. mixtus mixtus Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• Charaxes mixtus images at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Charaxes mixtus mixtus images at BOLD
• Charaxes mixtus tanzanicus images at BOLD

Notes and References

1. Web site: Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini . 2012-05-23 . 2013-11-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131109071734/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc . dead .
2. Aurivillius, [P.O.]C. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde Band 13: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter, 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.
3. Kielland, J. 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.
4. Web site: African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013 . https://archive.today/20130627225051/http://www.charaxes.be/systematic/systematique.html . dead . 2013-06-27 .
5. Kielland, J. 1988. A new subspecies of Charaxes mixtus Rothschild from western Tanzania (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Lambillionea 88 (1-2): 33-36.