Charaxes lactetinctus

Ch. lactetinctus Karsch Both wings above broadly suffused with milk-white at the base; the forewing then black with orange distal band, cleft at the costal margin, but at the hindmargin indistinct in cellules la and lb and with orange marginal spots; the distal half of the hindwing black with narrow orange marginal band, preceded by blue spots; thorax and abdomen above milk-white. Both wings beneath dark violet-brown; the cell of the forewing with two transverse streaks, the first and second black and white ringed, but the third entirely white. A rare species, only observed in the Togo hinterland and Adamaua. 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}}

The habitat consists of savanna, including dry thorn-bush savanna.

The larvae feed on Syzygium cordatum and Maesopsis eminii.

• Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus (western Guinea, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, northern Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, northern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western and north-western Kenya)
• Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi Le Cerf, 1927 Le Cerf, F. 1927 Description d’un Charaxes nouveau d’Abyssinie. Encyclopedie Entomologique (B. 3. Lepidoptera) 2: 144. (south-western Ethiopia and possibly Sudan)

Recent taxonomic revision,{{Cite book|title=Butterflies of the World: Charaxes 1|last=Turlin|first=B.|publisher=Goecke & Evers|year=2005|isbn=3937783156|location=Keltern|pages=3|editor-last=Bauer & Frankenbach|volume=22}} corroborated by phylogenetic research, allow more rational grouping of related species (compared with historical attempts) based upon with cladistic relationships. Within a well-populated clade of 27 related species sharing a common ancestor approximately 16 mya during the Miocene,[http://www.nymphalidae.net/Aduse-Pokuetal2009.pdf/ "Out of Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725181224/http://www.nymphalidae.net/Aduse-Pokuetal2009.pdf |date=2019-07-25 }}. Aduse-Poku, Vingerhoedt, Wahlberg. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2009) 53;463–478 26 are now considered together as the jasius Group. C. lactetinctus is the 27th species in the Clade, and has undergone remarkable evolutionary divergence over the last 1.5 to 2.5 million years separating it from its closest existing relatives among the eudoxus and pollux subgroups, to the extent that it is considered a monospecific lactetinctus Group.{{Cite book|last=Turlin|first=B.|title=Butterflies of the World: Charaxes 3|publisher=Goecke & Evers|year=2007|isbn=9783937783284|editor-last=Bauer & Frankenbach|volume=25|location=Keltern|pages=3}}

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• 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]

• [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=503 Images of C. lactetinctus lactetinctus] Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=123952 Charaxes lactetinctus lactetinctus images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=192879 Charaxes lactetinctus ungemachi images] at BOLD

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Category:Butterflies described in 1892

lactetinctus

Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch

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