Charaxes defulvata is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

The species of butterfly was named by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1926.

The species is often treated as a subspecies of Charaxes varanes following Van Someren in 1974.

[5] It is considered a member of the Charaxes varanes group.

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