Charaxes eupale

It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.

(1991) [6] The green colouration is produced by pigments as opposed to being produced structurally, which is common in most green butterflies.

A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 Novitates Zoologicae Volume 7:510 et seq.

[1] (for terms see Novitates Zoologicae Volume 5:545-601 [2]) Similar to Charaxes dilutus but apical green patch darker and hind wing with a dark green margin [9] Charaxes eupale is in the Charaxes eupale species group (clade) The clade members are: Bouyer et al., 2008 erected the genus Viridixes Bouyer & Vingerhoedt, 2008 to accommodate species belonging to the eupale species group.

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