''Charaxes harmodius'' is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by

Cajetan Felder Baron Cajetan von Felder (german: link=no, Cajetan Freiherr von Felder; 19 September 1814 – 30 November 1894) was an Austrian lawyer, entomologist and liberal politician. He served as mayor of Vienna from 1868 to 1878. Life and career 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, amassing, with his father, Cajetan Felder, a huge collection. Works *with Cajetan Felder, Lepidopte ...

in 1867. It is found in the

Indomalayan realm The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. ''Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde'' 9 ''Charaxes harmodius'' is a large coppery butterfly with concave forewings with a brown apex and border and hindwings with a very small tail decorated with a submarginal line of dark brown dots with white pupils, the first a patch including two pupils of white. The reverse is coppery brown suffused with purple.

Subspecies

*''Charaxes harmodius harmodius'' (Java) *''Charaxes harmodius martinus'' Rothschild, 1900 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia) *''Charaxes harmodius infernus'' Rothschild, 1903 (Borneo) *''Charaxes harmodius harpagon'' Staudinger, 1889 (Palawan) *''Charaxes harmodius maruyamai'' Hanafusa, 1987 (Peninsular Malaysia) *''Charaxes harmodius shiloi'' Hanafusa, 1994 (Laos)

References

External links

''Charaxes'' Ochsenheimer, 1816
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' harmodius Butterflies described in 1867 Butterflies of Malaysia Taxa named by Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder Butterflies of Borneo Butterflies of Java Fauna of Sumatra {{Nymphalidae-stub