Subgenus Stonehamia (Hadrodontes) The group members are: Subspecies include:[2] This species is found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia.

[2][7] These butterflies usually occur in dense evergreen forests at low to moderate altitudes.

[7] In Tanzania it is found at altitudes of 800 to 2,000 metres (2,600 to 6,600 ft)[8] Charaxes fulvescens can reach a wingspan of about 46 millimetres (1.8 in).

Outside the white area of the upperside, the wings are orange to brown, with a pattern of lighter and darker flecks.

The inner area is light beige with several curved, interrupted, grey brown wavy lines.

Basal area of both wings above uniform light orange- yellow without white; the inner spots in the black distal part of the forewing above much produced transversely; the dark marginal band on the upperside of the hindwing much narrower than in the other races.

[11] The larvae feed on Allophylus species, including A. macrobothrys, A. africanus, A. macrostachys and A.