Charaxes

[thumb|[Photographemata ex *Die charaxiden und apaturiden der kolonie Kamerun* (Schultze 1917), elementa biologiae Charaxis adducit.]]
[thumb|[Cladogramma subdivisionis basalis generis *Charaxis* et cognatorum proximorum.]]

***Charaxes*** est genus typicus Charaxinarum, papilionum subfamiliae Nymphalidarum. Ad tribum Charaxinos pertinet, inter quos papiliones generis *Polyura* etiam digeruntur. *Charaxes* sunt papiliones tropici Mundi Veteris, quibus est multo maximam diversitatem in Africa sub-Saharana, minor numerus ab Asia Meridiana ad Melanesiam et Australiam, et unica species (*Charaxes jasius*) in Europa. *Charaxes* sunt volatores validi vivideque colorati, collectoribusque insectorum gratissimi.

## Descriptio imaginis
*Charaxibus* adultis sunt thorax et abdomen robusta. Eorum latitudo alarum est ab 8 ad 10 fere cm. Primi alarum superiorum colores a fusco ad nigrum et pallescentem variant. Notae alarum esse possunt maculae, fasciae, vel vittae albae, aurantiae, vel caeruleae. Aliis speciebus sunt maculae caeruleae metallicae, aliis nitor generatim metallicus iridescens. *Charaxes zingha* partim ruber, *Charaxes eupale* viridula est. Mares complexus specierum *Charaxis etheoclis* plerumque sunt nigri, quam ob causam *Charaxes* nigri vulgo appellari solent.
 

## Species
In litteris vetustioribus, nonnullae *Polyurae,* sicut *Polyura dolon,* in *Charxes* poni poterant.

### Species in oecozona Afrotropica non inventae
**Charaxes affinis* Butler, [1866]
**Charaxes amycus*  C. & R. Felder, 1861
**Charaxes antonius*  Semper, 1878
**Charaxes aristogiton*  C. & R. Felder, [1867]
**Charaxes bernardus*  (Fabricius, 1793)
**Charaxes borneensis*  Butler, 1869
**Charaxes bupalus*  Staudinger, 1889
**Charaxes distanti*  Honrath, [1885]
**Charaxes durnfordi*  Distant, 1884
**Charaxes elwesi*  Joicey & Talbot, 1922
**Charaxes eurialus*  (Cramer, [1775])
**Charaxes fervens*  Butler, 1896
**Charaxes harmodius*  C. & R. Felder, [1867]
**Charaxes kahruba*  (Moore, [1895])
**Charaxes latona*  Butler, [1866]
**Charaxes marmax*  Westwood, 1847
**Charaxes mars*  Staudinger, 1885
**Charaxes musashi*  Tsukada, 1991
**Charaxes nitebis*  (Hewitson, 1859)
**Charaxes ocellatus*  Fruhstorfer, 1896
**Charaxes orilus*  Butler, 1869
**Charaxes plateni*  Staudinger, 1889
**Charaxes psaphon*  Westwood, 1847
**Charaxes setan*  Detani, 1983
**Charaxes solon*  (Fabricius, 1793)

### Species in oecozona Afrotropica inventae
Per abecedarium perscriptae.

**Charaxes achaemenes*
**Charaxes acraeoides*
**Charaxes acuminatus*
**Charaxes alpinus*
**Charaxes alticola*
**Charaxes amandae*
**Charaxes ameliae*
**Charaxes analava*
**Charaxes andara*
**Charaxes andranodorus*
**Charaxes angelae*
**Charaxes ansorgei*
**Charaxes antamboulou*
**Charaxes anticlea*
**Charaxes antiquus*
**Charaxes aubyni*
**Charaxes baileyi*
**Charaxes balfourii*
**Charaxes barnsi*
**Charaxes baumanni*
**Charaxes berkeleyi*
**Charaxes bernardii*
**Charaxes bernstorffi*
**Charaxes bipunctatus*
**Charaxes blanda*
**Charaxes bocqueti*
**Charaxes bohemani*
**Charaxes boueti*
**Charaxes brainei*
**Charaxes brutus*
**Charaxes cacuthis*
**Charaxes candiope*
**Charaxes carteri*
**Charaxes castor*
**Charaxes catachrous*
**Charaxes cedreatis*
**Charaxes chanleri*
**Charaxes chepalunga*
**Charaxes chevroti*
**Charaxes chintechi*
**Charaxes chunguensis*
**Charaxes cithaeron*
**Charaxes congdoni*
**Charaxes contrarius*
**Charaxes cowani*
**Charaxes cynthia*
**Charaxes defulvata*
**Charaxes dilutus*
**Charaxes diversiforma*
**Charaxes doubledayi*
**Charaxes dowsetti*
**Charaxes dreuxi*
**Charaxes druceanus*
**Charaxes dubiosus*
**Charaxes ephyra*
**Charaxes etesipe*
**Charaxes ethalion*
**Charaxes etheocles*
**Charaxes eudoxus*
**Charaxes eupale*
**Charaxes figini*
**Charaxes fionae*
**Charaxes fournierae*
**Charaxes fulgurata*
**Charaxes fulvescens*
**Charaxes fuscus*
**Charaxes galawadiwosi*
**Charaxes gallagheri*
**Charaxes galleyanus*
**Charaxes gerdae*
**Charaxes grahamei*
**Charaxes guderiana*
**Charaxes hadrianus*
**Charaxes hansali*
**Charaxes hildebrandti*
**Charaxes howarthi*
**Charaxes imperialis*
**Charaxes jahlusa*
**Charaxes jasius*
**Charaxes jolybouyeri*
**Charaxes junius*
**Charaxes kahldeni*
**Charaxes karkloof*
**Charaxes kheili*
**Charaxes kirki*
**Charaxes lactetinctus*
**Charaxes larseni*
**Charaxes lasti*
**Charaxes lecerfi*
**Charaxes legeri*
**Charaxes lemosi*
**Charaxes loandae*
**Charaxes lucretius*
**Charaxes lucyae*
**Charaxes lycurgus*
**Charaxes lydiae*
**Charaxes macclounii*
**Charaxes mafuga*
**Charaxes manica*
**Charaxes margaretae*
**Charaxes marieps*
**Charaxes martini*
**Charaxes matakall*
**Charaxes mccleeryi*
**Charaxes mixtus*
**Charaxes monteiri*
**Charaxes montis*
**Charaxes mtui*
**Charaxes murphyi*
**Charaxes musakensis*
**Charaxes mycerina*
**Charaxes nandina*
**Charaxes nicati*
**Charaxes nichetes*
**Charaxes nobilis*
**Charaxes northcotti*
**Charaxes numenes*
**Charaxes nyikensis*
**Charaxes obudoensis*
**Charaxes octavus*
**Charaxes odysseus*
**Charaxes opinatus*
**Charaxes overlaeti*
**Charaxes paphianus*
**Charaxes paradoxa*
**Charaxes pelias*
**Charaxes pembanus*
**Charaxes penricei*
**Charaxes petersi*
**Charaxes phaeus*
**Charaxes phenix*
**Charaxes phoebus*
**Charaxes phraortes*
**Charaxes plantroui*
**Charaxes pleione*
**Charaxes pollux*
**Charaxes pondoensis*
**Charaxes porthos*
**Charaxes prettejohni*
**Charaxes protoclea*
**Charaxes pseudophaeus*
**Charaxes pythodoris*
**Charaxes richelmanni*
**Charaxes saperanus*
**Charaxes schiltzei*
**Charaxes sidamo*
**Charaxes smaragdalis*
**Charaxes subornatus*
**Charaxes subrubidus*
**Charaxes superbus*
**Charaxes taverniersi*
**Charaxes tectonis*
**Charaxes teissieri*
**Charaxes thomasius*
**Charaxes thysi*
**Charaxes tiridates*
**Charaxes turlini*
**Charaxes usambarae*
**Charaxes vansoni*
**Charaxes varanes*
**Charaxes variata*
**Charaxes velox*
**Charaxes viola*
**Charaxes violetta*
**Charaxes viossati*
**Charaxes virescens*
**Charaxes virilis*
**Charaxes williami*
**Charaxes xiphares*
**Charaxes zambeziensis*
**Charaxes zelica*
**Charaxes zingha*
**Charaxes zoolina*

## Notae

## Bibliographia
*Aduse-Poku, K., E. Vingerhoedt, et N. Wahlberg. 2009. Out-of-Africa again: a phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions. *Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.* 53(2):463–478. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.021.
*Braby, Michael F. 2004. *Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia.* CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0643090274.
*Woodhall, Steve. 2005. *Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa.* Cape Town: Struik Publishers.

## Bibliographia addita
*Darge, Philippe. 1983. Fauna of Cameroon: The genus *Charaxes.* *Sciences Nat.* (Venette) 1–136, pl. 1–43.
*Henning, Stephen Frank. 1989. *The Charaxinae Butterflies of Africa.* Johannesburg: Aloe Books. ISBN 0620128119.
*Müller, Chris J., Niklas Wahlberg, et Luciano B. Beheregaray. 2010. "After Africa": the evolutionary history and systematics of the genus Charaxes Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in the Indo-Pacific region. *Biological Journal of the Linnean Society* 100(2):457–481.
*Plantrou, Jacques. 1973. Note sur les *Charaxes* de l’Afrique occidentale, 1 (Lep. Nymphalidae). *Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France* 78(7-8):268–276.
*Plantrou, Jacques. 1974. Note sur les *Charaxes* de l’Afrique occidentale, 2 (Lep. Nymphalidae). *Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France* 79(5–6):125–131.
*Plantrou, Jacques. 1983. *Systématique biogéographie et évolution des Charaxes africains* (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae). Lutetiae: École normale supérieure, Laboratoire de zoologie. Series: Publications du Laboratoire de zoologie, École normale supérieure, no 25. ISBN 9782728800926
*Rothschild, Walter, et Karl Jordan. 1898. A monograph of *Charaxes* and the allied prionopterous genera. *Novitates Zoologicae* 5:545–601
*Turlin, Bernard. 2005-2007. *Butterflies of the World,* ed. Erich Bauer et Thomas Franckenbach. Partes 22, 25, 28, 32, Charaxes 1–4. Goecke & Evers. ISBN 9783937783321.
*Van Someren, Victor Gurney Logan. 1963–1975. Revisional Notes on the African Charaxes. Partes 1–10, pp. 652, pl. 148.

## Nexus externi
**Charaxes,* eol.org (EOL)
*Imagines, www.barcodinglife.org (Consortium for the Barcode of Life)
*Pteron, www.petron-world.com (lingua Iaponiensi)
*Vingerhoedt, Eric. African Charaxes, www.charaxes.be


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