Charaxes numenes
Charaxes numenes, the lesser blue charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Description. "Ch. numenes" Hew. (31 c). Tails of the hindwing short. Hindwing beneath somewhat beyond the middle with a continuous, fine, gently curved, black transverse line, distally bordered with white, almost exactly as in "violetta". In this these two species differ from  all the rest of the "tiridates" group. Male, wings above bluish black, at the base black-brown; forewing in the middle with four small blue spots in the basal part of cellules 2-5 and usually also behind the middle with a transverse row of blue dots; marginal spots distinct, ochre-yellow. Hindwing beyond the middle with a row of blue dots, incurved in cellule 6; small whitish submarginal spots and fine whitish marginal streaks. The female agrees almost entirely with that of "tiridates" Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda. - "neumanni" Rothsch. has larger yellow marginal spots on both wings  and somewhat longer tail-appendages on the hindwing; Abyssinia. Biology. The habitat consists of evergreen lowland forests. The larvae feed on "Hugonia platysepela", "Grewia mollis", "Grewia forbesi", "Grewia trichocarpa", "Deinbollia fulvotomentella", "Erythrina abyssinica", "Erythrina excelsa", "Allophylus", "Blighia unijugata" and "Phialodiscus unijugatus". Taxonomy. "Charaxes tiridates" group. The supposed clade members are: For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.