Charaxes (Charaxes) acuminatus subsp. teitensis van Someren 1963
- 1. Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, Arusha, Tanzania; & Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
- 2. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; & Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK; & School of Human and Life Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
Description
Charaxes (Charaxes) acuminatus teitensis van Someren, 1963
Henning 1989: 48 (1 fig.). SI: Figure 20a – d (two males).
Forewing length: male 46 – 51 mm [mean (n = 8) 48.09 mm, SD = 0.951]; female 51 – 60 mm [mean (n = 4) 54.18 mm, SD = 3.585]. van Someren (1963, p. 216) gave male forewing length as 47 mm, female 55 mm.
There is almost no sexual dimorphism in colour pattern in this species, but the leaflike undersides vary considerably.
RecordsMountains of the Northern Highlands, including Oldeani, Ngorongoro, Mt Meru and Mt Longido, at elevations of 1700 – 2600 m (Kielland 1990, p. 94). Encountered on Kilimanjaro by Liseki (2009, p. 105) at 2000 m during January and March. Four male and 1 female specimens in BMNH were collected at altitudes from 4000 – 5500 ft by Cooper. In addition there are three males from Moshi district, one collected at Rau Forest on 8 September 1943, one from ‘ 6 miles NW of Moshi ’, obtained 13 May 1916 by Buchanan, and the third from Mwika, 4000 ft, ex Adams Collection. In OUMNH there is a single male from Kilimanjaro collected by Rogers, May 1905. Beyond Tanzania this subspecies occurs in southeastern Kenya (Mt Mbolo, Taita Hills, Chyulu Hills, Ol ’ Doinyo Orok: Henning 1989; Larsen 1996). Over a dozen subspecies of C. acuminatus Thurau, 1903, are recognized, distributed in highland forests from Kenya and Uganda to Zambia and Zimbabwe (Ackery et al. 1995).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Genus
- Charaxes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- van Someren
- Species
- teitensis
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Charaxes (Charaxes) acuminatus subsp. teitensis Someren, 1963 sec. Liseki & Vane-Wright, 2015
References
- van Someren VGL. 1963. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part I. Bull Br Mus (Nat Hist) Entomol. 13: 195 - 242, 19 pls.
- Henning SF. 1989. The Charaxinae Butterflies of Africa. Johannesburg: Aloe.
- Kielland J. 1990. Butterflies of Tanzania. Melbourne: Hill House.
- Liseki SD 2009. Butterfly diversity and its relevance to conservation in north-eastern Tanzania [PhD thesis]. Canterbury (UK): University of Kent.
- Larsen TB. 1996. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. 2 nd ed. Oxford (UK): Oxford University Press.
- Ackery PR, Smith CR, Vane-Wright RI, editors. 1995. Carcasson ' s African Butterflies: an annotated catalogue of the Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea of the Afrotropical Region. East Melbourne: CSIRO.