Biology:Charaxes elwesi

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Charaxes elwesi
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. elwesi
Binomial name
Charaxes elwesi
Joicey & Talbot, 1922[1]

Charaxes elwesi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1922. It is endemic to Sumbawa and Sumba in the Indomalayan realm (near the Wallace Line).[2]

Subspecies

  • Charaxes elwesi elwesi (Sumbawa)
  • Charaxes elwesi pugnax Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979 (Sumba)

References

  1. Joicey & Talbot, 1922 New forms of the genus Charaxes (Nymphalidae) from Africa and Malaya Bulletin of the Hill Museum. 1 (2): 335-338
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2957626 entry