Charaxes fournierae

The habitat consists of lowland tropical moist broadleaf forests.Henning, S.F. 1988 [1989]. The Charaxinae butterflies of Africa. Aloe Books, Johannesburg, 1-457.

The nominate subspecies resembles Euphaedra adonina and Euphaedra justicia, while subspecies jolybouyeri is closest to Euphaedra sarcoptera. All three of these euphaedras fly high up on occasion. It is puzzling that a non-aposematic charaxes should apparently mimic species of non-aposematic Euphaedra .Larsen, T.B. 2005 Butterflies of West Africa. Apollo Books, Svendborg, Denmark: 1-595

• Charaxes fournierae fournierae (Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, western Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Charaxes fournierae jolybouyeri Vingerhoedt, 1998Vingerhoedt, E. 1998. [Description of a new subspecies of Charaxes fournierae Le Moult, 1930 (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae).] Entomologia Africana 3 (Supplement): 1-6 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana) considered a full species by Vingerhoedt et al.Vingerhoedt, Zakharov, Rougerie & Bouyer, 2010 Révision du statut des membres du groupe de Charaxes acraeoides, Druce 1908; approche intégrant morphologie, biogéographie et code barre ADN. Entomologia Africana n°15, volume 1, page : 36 à 48.
• Charaxes fournierae kigeziensis Howarth, 1969.Howarth. G. An unrecognised subspecies of Charaxes fournierae Le Moult and the male of Charaxes lydiae Holland. Proceeding and Transactions of the London Entomological and Natural History Society (B), volume 38, page 152 and 153, Plate 2. (Uganda: south-west to south-west Kigezi)
• Charaxes fournierae vandenberghei Collins, 1982 Collins, S.C. 1982. A new subspecies of Charaxes fournierae Le Moult 1930. Miscellanea Entomologica 49: 99-100. (Rwanda: west to the Nyungwe Forest)

"Around 1930, I trained a hunter, Mr. Pichot, a very intelligent and resourceful man, who, having gone to Africa, in turn educated many natives.Seeing the magnificent results he was obtaining, I asked him to look for me an extremely rare butterfly, of which there were perhaps two or three copies all over the world, the Charaxes Acraeoides. I specified that the female had never before been captured, and that consequently, if he ever provided me with one, I would immediately send him a few thousand francs. And one day, I received an enthusiastic letter: "I have the female, you will receive her shortly". I spent a few days of fever and a few nights of insomnia. Finally, the parcel arrived, and, to my amazement, I found that the butterfly so gloriously announced was not the female of the Charaxes Acraeoides, but the male of another Charaxes of an absolutely unknown species. Mr. Pichot's mistake was that the butterfly was indeed the size that could be assumed of a female of Acraeoides, but he did not understand that its colours, much more vivid, prevented it from being one. Madame Fournier, my best Parisian client, as soon as she saw this wonderful lepidopteran, never ceased [in her wish] to possess it. I sold it to her, not without first describing and baptizing it, by the name of its new owner. I named my rarity Charaxes Fournierae.Le Moult (Eugène), Mes chasses aux papillons, Editions Pierre Horay, 1955, p. 283-284.

The name honours Aimée Fournier de Horrack.

Charaxes acraeoides group.

the supposed clade members are:

• Charaxes acraeoides
• Charaxes fournierae rare
• Charaxes jolybouyeri (as subspecies above) rare

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• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127336#page/511/mode/1up]

• [https://archive.today/20130628001825/http://www.charaxes.be/systematic/systligth/acraeoigrp/fournierae/fournierae.html African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt ] Images and text including subspecies fournierae
• [https://archive.today/20130627235337/http://www.charaxes.be/systematic/systligth/acraeoigrp/jolybouyeri/jolybouyeri.html African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric Vingerhoedt] Images and text jolybouyeri
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=94991 Charaxes fournierae images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=99622 Charaxes fournierae fournierae images] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=123953 Charaxes fournierae kigeziensis images] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=123974 Charaxes fournierae vandeberghei images] at BOLD Holotype
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=99611 Charaxes fournierae vandeberghei images] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=99623 Charaxes fournierae jolybouyeri images] at BOLD
• [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=694 Images of C. fournierae vandenberghei] Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• [http://www.abdb-africa.org/ African Butterfly Database] Range map via search
• [https://archive.today/20130115023408/http://www.charaxes.be/systematic/systligth/acraeoigrp/kigeziensis/kigeziensis.html External images]

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Category:Butterflies described in 1930

fournierae

Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Eugène Le Moult