Charaxes (Charaxes) candiope candiope Godart, 1824

Liseki, Steven D. & Vane-Wright, Richard I., 2015, Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of Mount Kilimanjaro: Nymphalidae subfamilies Libytheinae, Danainae, Satyrinae and Charaxinae, Journal of Natural History 50, pp. 865-904 : 888

Charaxes (Charaxes) candiope candiope Godart, 1824

Henning 1989: 55 (4 figs). Larsen 1996: pl. 31, fig. 450 i,ii. d ’ Abrera 2004: 519 (2 figs). SI: Figure 21e – h.

Forewing length: male 38 – 47 mm [mean (n = 9) 42.76 mm, SD = 2.136]; female 47.5 – 54.5 mm [mean (n = 9) 50.47 mm, SD = 1.616]. van Someren (1974, p. 468) gave male forewing length as 39 – 44 mm, female 45 – 55.

Records

The Green-veined Charaxes is a common butterfly throughout most of its vast range ( Larsen 1996, p. 283). According to Kielland (1990, p. 98), found in all suitable habitats in Tanzania, up to 2600 m, including Pemba. Although van Someren (1974) and Henning (1989) gave no specific records for Tanzania, and this butterfly was not encountered by Liseki (2009), the BMNH has one male from the east side of Mt Meru collected at 5000 ft by B. Cooper, June – August 1937, two more Cooper males (West Kilimanjaro, 4500 – 5000 ft, December 1937 to February 1938; Engare-Nairobi, 4000 – 5000 ft, February – March 1937), and two females from Moshi area collected in 1942 and 1943. Cordeiro (1990, p. 34) recorded it from Lake Manyara National Park. We thus include this taxon as a member of the lower slopes fauna. Beyond Tanzania, the nominate subspecies occurs throughout almost the whole of tropical Africa; the only other recognized races are insular forms on São Tome and Socotra.