''Charaxes amycus'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a re ...

. It was described by Cajetan Felder and

Rudolf Felder Rudolf Felder (2 May 1842 in Vienna – 29 March 1871 in Vienna) was an Austrian jurist and entomologist. He was mainly interested in Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and ...

in 1861. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

in the Indomalayan realm. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9

Description

''Charaxes amycus'' is a large butterfly (wingspan 60– 68 mm.) The upperside ground colour is coppery rufous. There is a broad brown marginal band on the forewings and two tails on each hindwing.

Subspecies

*''C. a. amycus'' (Philippines: Luzon) *''C. a. georgius'' Staudinger, 1892 (Philippines: Mindoro) *''C. a. carolus'' Rothschild, 1900 (Philippines: Mindanao, Camiguin de Mindanao) *''C. a. myron'' Fruhstorfer, 1914 (Philippines: Polillo, Guimaras) *''C. a. negrosensis'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1982 (Philippines: Negros) *''C. a. bayani'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1982 (Marinduque) *''C. a. theobaldo'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1982 (Philippines: Panay) *''C. a. marion'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1981 (Philippines: Sibuyan, Romblon Group)

References

External links

''Charaxes'' Ochsenheimer, 1816
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' amycus Butterflies described in 1861 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Nymphalidae-stub