It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Tanzania.

male Hindwing above with a blue transverse band 4–5 mm.

in breadth, placed in the middle and continued on the forewing almost straight to vein 6 or 7, but then becoming gradually narrower and breaking up into spots.

Notes on the biology of porthos are given by Congdon and Collins (1998) [5] Charaxes porthos is a member of the species group Charaxes lycurgus.

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