Charaxes protoclea

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The wingspan is 65–70 mm in males and 75–95 mm in females. Ch. protoclea Feisth. has the forewing above unicolorous black, only in cellules la—2 with orange-yellow marginal spots or with orange-yellow marginal band; hindwing above also deep black but with very broad orange-yellow marginal band, 10 mm. in breadth at vein 3, usually enclosing a black dot in cellules lc and 6; the under surface of both wings dark umber-brown with the markings ferruginous, only

in cellule lc of the forewing black; the costal margin of the forewing not lighter than the ground-colour. The female is quite unlike the male and has on both surfaces a very broad white median band, which in cellules 3—7 of the forewing is more or less completely broken up into spots; the ground-colour is above blackish, beneath lighter grey-brown than in the male the forewing above as in the male only with orange-yellow marginal spots in cellules la—-2; the yellow marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing only 3 mm. in breadth. Senegambia

to Angola. — nothodes Jord, connects the type-form with azota, the marginal spots of the forewing being better developed than in the former, but less than in azota, and the submarginal spots not so complete as in azota. Tanganyika. — azota Hew. must be regarded as the eastern race. The male only differs in having the orange-yellow marginal band on the upperside of the fore wing extending to the apex and preceded by a transverse row of orange-yellow submarginal spots, which are or less confluent with the marginal ones. The female

has a still broader white median band on the upper surface, on the forewing broken up into two rows of spots in cellules 2—7, of which the distal row is formed of large orange-yellow spots; the orange-yellow marginal band on the forewing above is complete, as in the male . Distributed in East Africa from Delagoa Bay to Nyassaland and British East Africa, male-ab. nyasana Btlr. only differs in having the marginal and submarginal spots on the upperside of the forewing connected as far as vein 5, enclosing a black spot; in the normal form these spots are already separated in cellule 4. Nyassaland.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}}

Has two broods from October to November and from February to June.{{cite book|last=Woodhall |first=Steve |title=Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa |year=2005 |location=Cape Town, South Africa |publisher=Struik |isbn=978-1-86872-724-7 }}

The habitat is Miombo woodland.

Larvae feed on Afzelia quanzensis, Brachystegia spiciformis, and Julbernardia globiflora.

Notes on the biology of protoclea are given by Kielland (1990), (1991) and Pringle et al (1994).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.Pringle et al , 1994. Pennington’s Butterflies of Southern Africa, 2nd edition

Charaxes cynthia group

The group members are

• Charaxes cynthia similar to Charaxes lucretius
• Charaxes protoclea
• Charaxes boueti close to next
• Charaxes lasti close to last
• Charaxes alticola

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Listed alphabetically.

• C. p. azota (Hewitson, 1877) Hewitson, W.C. 1877 Descriptions of three new species of butterflies from Delagoa Bay. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 14: 81-83. (Kenya, Tanzania, north-eastern Zambia, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique, South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal)
• C. p. catenaria Rousseau-Decelle, 1934 Rousseau-Decelle, G. 1934. De quelques formes nouvelles de Charaxes africains. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 39: 228-236.(Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Tanzania, Zambia)
• C. p. cedrici Canu, J.G 1989. In: Henning, 1989. The Charaxinae butterflies of Africa 136 (457 pp.). Johannesburg. Canu, 1989 (Bioko)
• C. p. nothodes Jordan, 1911Jordan, K. 1911. Two new African butterflies. Novitates Zoologicae 18: 137-138. (Democratic Republic of the Congo, western Uganda, north-western Tanzania)
• C. p. protoclea Feisthamel, 1850 (Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, western Nigeria)
• C. p. protonothodes van Someren, 1971van Someren, V.G.L. 1971. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera:Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 26:181-226. (Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo, north-western Angola, north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo)

File:Charaxes protoclea protoclea.jpg|C. p. protoclea male

File:Charaxes protoclea azota.jpg|C. p. azota male from Kenya

File:Charaxes protoclea protonothodes.jpg|C. p. protonothodes male from CAR

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• Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology)181-226.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19576#page/239/mode/1up]

• [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=335 Images of C. protoclea azota] Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
• [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=377 Images of C. protoclea catenaria] (Albertine Rift Project)
• [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=578 Images of C. protoclea nothodes] (Albertine Rift Project)
• [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=626 Images of C. protoclea protoclea ] (Albertine Rift Project)
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=98122 Charaxes protoclea images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=192867 Charaxes protoclea protoclea images ] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=98132 Charaxes protoclea azota images ] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=192868 Charaxes protoclea catenaria images ] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=203044 Charaxes protoclea cedreici images ] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=124002 Charaxes protoclea nothodes images ] at BOLD
• [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=203063 Charaxes protoclea protonothodes images] at BOLD
• [https://archive.org/stream/diegrossschmett13seit#page/n71/mode/2up/search/charaxes Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 31] d ssp. azota

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protoclea

Category:Butterflies described in 1850

Category:Taxa named by Joachim François Philibert Feisthamel

Category:Butterflies of Africa