Charaxes kirki
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| genus = Charaxes
| species = kirki
| authority = Butler, 1881Butler, A.G., 1881 On two new species of butterflies from East Africa. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 18: 145-146.[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/charaxinae/charaxes/ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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- Charaxes etheocles f. rogersi Poulton, 1919
- Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. albifascia Poulton, 1926
- Charaxes etheocles etheocles f. handari Poulton, 1926
- Charaxes etheocles suk Carpenter & Jackson, 1950
- Charaxes etheocles f. kirkoides Carpenter and Jackson, 1950
- Charaxes etheocles f. intermedia Carpenter and Jackson, 1950
- Charaxes etheocles f. achaemenesopsis Carpenter and Jackson, 1950
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Charaxes kirki is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini |access-date=2012-05-24 |archive-date=2013-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109071734/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc |url-status=dead }}
Description
f. kirki Btlr. Hindwing above with broad white median band, with the proximal border bluish and the distal somewhat yellowish, marginal streaks olive, in cellules 4-6 orange. The two rows of spots on the forewing are joined together in cellules la-3 and only in cellules 4-7 more or less completely separated; the band formed by them is yellowish white to ochre-yellow. German and British East Africa.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.{{PD-notice}}
Biology
The habitat consists of savanna and dry forests.
The larvae feed on Acacia mellifera, Albizia adianthifolia, Albizia coriaria, Albizia schimperiana, Entada abyssinica, Entada leptostachys, Entada africana, Entada phaseoloides, Tamarindus indica, Acacia afra, Albizia sassa, Albizia gummifera and Entada gigas.
Notes on the biology of kirki are provided by Kielland (1990) and Larsen (1991)Kielland, J. 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.Larsen, T.B. 1991 The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford: i-xxii, 1-490.
Taxonomy
Charaxes kirki is a member of the Charaxes etheocles species group.
Subspecies
- Charaxes kirki kirki (central and eastern Kenya, central, northern and eastern Tanzania, Pemba Island)
- Charaxes kirki daria Rothschild, 1903Rothschild, W & Jordan, K. 1903 Lepidoptera collected by Oscar Neumann in northeast Africa. Novitates Zoologicae 10: 491-542. (Ethiopia: east of the Rift Valley)
- Charaxes kirki suk Carpenter & Jackson, 1950Carpenter, G.D.H., and Jackson, T.H.E. 1950. New butterflies from East Africa and the Ituri Forest. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B) 19: 97-108. (Uganda: central and north to the area west of Lake Rudolf)
References
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External links
- [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=395 Images of C. kirki daria] Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=664 Images of C. kirki suk] (Albertine Rift Project)
- [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=55268 Charaxes kirki images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=99647 Charaxes kirki kirki images] at BOLD
- [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=99646 Charaxes kirki daria images] at BOLD
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Category:Butterflies described in 1881
Category:Butterflies of Africa
Category:Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler
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