Charaxes mixtus

Charaxes mixtus is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

The male is very similar to that of tiridates and only differs in having the marginal spots of the forewing short and whitish and the marginal streaks of the hindwing thick, undivided, blue; the blue spots behind the middle of the hindwing are also much larger than in tiridates.

The female is considerably larger than the male but similar in colour and markings, hence entirely different from tiridates female .

Notes on the biology of mixtus are given by Kielland (1990) [5] Charaxes tiridates group The supposed clade members are: For a full list see Eric Vingerhoedt, 2013.

This article related to members of the butterfly subfamily Charaxinae is a stub.