Charaxes octavus
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| authority = Minig, 1972 Minig, A. 1972. Description d’un nouveau Charaxes [Lep. Nymphalidae]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 76: 269-270.[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
| synonyms = *Charaxes patergodarti Neidhoefer, 1972
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Charaxes octavus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Central African Republic.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini |access-date=2012-05-22 |archive-date=2013-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109071734/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc |url-status=dead }} The habitat consists of tropical forests.
Taxonomy
Known from a single specimen from the type locality only. Probably a hybrid of brutus and lucretius.Ackery, 1995 in Ackery, P.R., Smith, C.R., Vane-Wright, R.I., et al. 1995. Carcasson's African Butterflies: An annotated Catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London: i-xi, 1-803.
Charaxes lucretius group.
The members are:
- Charaxes lucretius
- Charaxes octavus
- Charaxes odysseus
References
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External links
- [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=98140 Charaxes octavus images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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Category:Butterflies described in 1972
Category:Endemic fauna of the Central African Republic
Category:Butterflies of Africa
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