''Charaxes kahldeni'' is a

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in the family

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. It is found in northern

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, the

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and southern

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. Its habitat is forests.

Description

Very similar to ''Charaxes zoolina''. Hindwing underside in cell 1c with a black longitudinal stripe, which extends almost to the anal angle and joins with the similar median strip.

Description in Seitz

''Ch. kahldeni''. Hindwing beneath in cellule lc with a black longitudinal stripe, extending from the base nearly to the anal angle and posteriorly joined to the median stripe, which is also black- ''kahldeni'' Homeyer and Dew. (= ''W-brunnea'' Baker). Both wings greenish white; distal and costal margins of the hind wing narrowly black; from the costal margin arises a black submarginal line, which beneath reaches to vein 1, but above at furthest to vein 2. Hindwing above only with a fine marginal line and three submarginal spots (in cellules lc-3) black, beneath, in addition to the two stripes already mentioned, with a thick black sub marginal line and a fine marginal line. Cameroons to Angola. In f. ''homeyeri'' Dewthe basal half of the forewing above is whitish, the apical part yellow-brown with rust-brown marginal band spotted with yellow; hindwing above whitish with a rust-brown marginal band about 3 mm. in breadth. Under surface brownish, sprinkled with darker dots, as in the type-form with longitudinal stripe in 1 c and a median band, but with dark dots instead of the submarginal stripes. Cameroons to Angola; rare. Aurivillius, .O.. 1908-1924. In: Seitz, A. ''Die GroÃŸschmetterlinge der Erde'' Band 13: Abt. 2, ''Die exotischen GroÃŸschmetterlinge, Die afrikanischen Tagfalter'', 1925, 613 Seiten, 80 Tafeln (The Macrolepidoptera of the World 13).Alfred Kernen Verlag, Stuttgart.

Taxonomy

''Charaxes kahldeni'' is a member of the

species group In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear. The taxa in the complex may be able to hybridize readily with each oth ...

Charaxes zoolina ''Charaxes zoolina'', the club-tailed emperor or club-tailed charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Africa.clade In biology, a clade (), also known as a Monophyly, monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that is composed of a common ancestor and all of its descendants. Clades are the fundamental unit of cladistics, a modern approach t ...

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Charaxes zoolina ''Charaxes zoolina'', the club-tailed emperor or club-tailed charaxes, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Africa.Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1886 in Melbourne – 24 July 1976) was a zoologist and entomologist. Van Someren was born in Australia. He attended George Watson's College and studied zoology at University of Edinburgh. He was also a dentis ...

, 1974 Revisional notes on African ''Charaxes'' (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. ''Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History'' (Entomology) 29 (8):415-487

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(Albertine Rift Project) Butterflies described in 1882 kahldeni Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Hermann Dewitz Taxa named by Alexander von Homeyer {{Charaxinae-stub