''Euxanthe'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of butterflies in the subfamily

Charaxinae __NOTOC__ The Charaxinae, the leafwings, are a nymphalid subfamily of butterflies that includes about 400 species, inhabiting mainly the tropics, although some species extend into temperate regions in North America, Europe, China, and southern ...

Species

There are six species all found in

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...

forests. The popular name is forest queen. *

Subgenus In biology, a subgenus ( subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus. In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the ge ...

''Euxanthe'' Hübner,

819 __NOTOC__ Year 819 ( DCCCXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Europe * Spring – Emperor Louis I marries Judith of Bavaria in Aachen.Rogers, Barbara, Bernhard W. Scholz, and Nithard ...

/small> **'' Euxanthe crossleyi'' (Ward, 1871) **'' Euxanthe eurinome'' (Cramer,

775 __NOTOC__ Year 775 ( DCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 775 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe ...

**'' Euxanthe madagascariensis'' (Lucas, 1843) **'' Euxanthe wakefieldi'' (Ward, 1873) *Subgenus ''Hypomelaena'' Aurivillius, 898/small> **'' Euxanthe tiberius'' Grose-Smith, 1889 **'' Euxanthe trajanus'' (Ward, 1871)

External links

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TOL"''Euxanthe'' Hübner, [1819]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Barcodes of Life
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Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 29
Charaxinae Nymphalidae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Charaxinae-stub