''Charaxes baileyi'' is a
butterfly in the family
Nymphalidae. It is found in
Kenya, west of the
Rift Valley.
[Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini]
/ref> The habitat consists of riparian forests and bush [ Larsen, , T.B. 1991 ''The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History''. Oxford University Press, Oxford: i-xxii, 1-490 ]
The larvae feed on ''Scutia myrtina
''Scutia myrtina'' is a species of plant in the family Rhamnaceae. It is commonly known as cat-thorn.
Description
''Scutia myrtina'' is a variable plant that may grow as a shrub or tree of 2-10 m tall with trunk diameter to 30 cm or ...
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Taxonomy
''Charaxes baileyi'' is a member of the large species group ''Charaxes etheocles''
See also
* Kakamega Forest
*Mount Elgon National Park
Mount Elgon National Park is a national park northeast of Lake Victoria. The park covers an area of and is bisected by the border of Kenya and Uganda. The Ugandan part of the park covers while the Kenyan part covers . The Kenyan part of the p ...
References
* Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1969 Revisional notes on African ''Charaxes'' (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. ''Bulletin of the British Museum'' (Natural History) (Entomology)75-16
External links
African Charaxes/Charaxes Africains Eric VingerhoedtImages of ''C. baileyi ''
Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project)
''Charaxes baileyi'' images
at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
African Butterfly Database
Range map via search
Butterflies described in 1958
baileyi
Endemic insects of Kenya
Butterflies of Africa
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