Charaxes thysi
{{Short description|Species of butterfly}}
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| image = SeitzFaunaAfricanaXIIITaf33.jpg
| image_caption = In Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
| taxon = Charaxes thysi
| authority = Capronnier, 1889Capronnier, [J.B.] 1889a. Liste des Lépidoptères capturés au Congo. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 1889: 118-127.[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 thysii
}}
Charaxes thysi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.{{Cite web |url=http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc |title=Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini |access-date=2012-05-23 |archive-date=2013-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109071734/http://atbutterflies.com/downloads/nymphalidae_charaxini.doc |url-status=dead }}{{Cite journal |last1=Minig |first1=André |last2=Plantrou |first2=Jacques |date=1975 |title=Note sur Charaxes kheili Staudinger et Charaxes northeotti W. Rothschild, avec les descriptions des femelles [Lep. Nymphalidae] |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/bsef.1975.21488 |journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France |volume=80 |issue=9 |pages=275–285 |doi=10.3406/bsef.1975.21488 |s2cid=203152968 |issn=0037-928X|url-access=subscription }}
Description
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Ch. thysi Capronn. male above black with intensive blue reflection; both wings beyond the middle with a common dark blue transverse band, on the hindwing 6 mm. in breadth, on the forewing somewhat narrower and broken up into spots; hindwing with white submarginal dots and bluish marginal streaks. This remarkably beautiful but very rare species differs from all other African forms in its bright silvery under surface, which is divided beyond the middle by a red-brown, black-spotted transverse band 2—-3 mm. in breadth. The female is unknown. Congo. 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 forests.
Taxonomy
Charaxes thysi is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.
Realm
References
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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]
External links
- [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=681 Images of C. thysi] Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
- [http://www.barcodinglife.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=95049 Charaxes thysi images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life including Holotype
- [http://projects.bebif.be/enbi/albertinerift/butterfly/taxoninfo?id=681 External images]
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Category:Butterflies described in 1889
Category:Butterflies of Africa
Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier
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