Charaxes lucyae

• Charaxes lucyae lucyae (north-eastern Tanzania)
• Charaxes lucyae gabriellae Turlin & Chovet, 1987Turlin, B., & Chovet, G. 1987. Etude d’un probleme taxonomique pose par des Charaxes africains du groupe eudoxus (Drury) (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae). Bulletin de la Société Scientifique Naturelle No. 54: 5-12. (north-eastern Tanzania)
• Charaxes lucyae mwanihanae Kielland, 1982Kielland, J. 1982 Three new races of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) from Tanzania. Lambillionea 81 (9-12): 86-90. (eastern Tanzania)

Historical attempts to assemble a cluster of presumably related species into a "Charaxes jasius Group" have not been wholly convincing. More 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=2–3|editor-last=Bauer & Frankenbach|volume=22}} corroborated by phylogenetic research, allow a more rational grouping congruent with cladistic relationships. Within a well-populated clade of 27 related species sharing a common ancestor approximately 16 mya during the Miocene, 26 are now considered together as The jasius Group. One of the two lineages within this clade forms a robust monophyletic group of seven species sharing a common ancestor approximately 2-3 mya, i.e. during the Pliocene,[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 and are considered as the jasius subgroup. The second lineage leads to 19 other species within the Jasius group, which are split into three well-populated subgroups of closely related species.

The jasius Group (26 Species):

Clade 1: jasius subgroup (7 species)

Clade 2: contains the well-populated three additional subgroups (19 species) of the jasius Group: called the brutus, pollux, and eudoxus subgroups.

• the eudoxus subgroup (11 species):
• Charaxes eudoxus
• Charaxes lucyae
• Charaxes richelmanni
• Charaxes musakensis
• Charaxes biokensis[stat.rev.2005]
• Charaxes ducarmei
• Charaxes druceanus
• Charaxes tectonis
• Charaxes phraortes
• Charaxes andranodorus
• Charaxes andrefana[stat.rev.2025]

Further exploration of the phylogenetic relationships amongst existing Charaxes taxa is required to improve clarity.

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• van Someren, V.G.L., 1975 Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 32 (3):65-136.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127432#page/103/mode/1up]

• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=192857 Charaxes lucyae lucyae images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

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Category:Butterflies described in 1975

lucyae

Category:Endemic fauna of Tanzania

Category:Butterflies of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Victor Van Someren

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