Charaxes (Charaxes) castor flavifasciatus Butler, 1895

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) castor flavifasciatus Butler, 1895

Henning 1989: 98 (4 figs). SI: Figure 23a – d.

Forewing length: male 43.5 – 51.5 mm [mean (n = 12) 47.30 mm, SD = 1.954]; female 51.5 – 58.5 mm [mean (n = 7) 54.59 mm, SD = 1.793]. van Someren (1971, p. 187) gave male forewing length as 44 – 49 mm, female as 50 – 55.

Records

Kielland (1990, p. 98) states that C. c. flavifasciatus is found in northern and eastern parts of Tanzania, in woodlands, forests and coastal shrubland, at altitudes up to 2000 m, with its range said to include the ‘ Kilimanjaro area ’ ( van Someren 1971, p. 188) . The only certain material we have located comprises three males from Taveta collected by Rogers at c . 2500 ft, April and May 1905 ( OUMNH) . Included here as a member of the lower slopes fauna . More widely this east African subspecies extends northwards into Kenya, and south as far as Natal and Transvaal . The nominate subspecies extends widely throughout central and western Africa , and to the north in Ethiopia (which may represent a separate taxon); local endemic insular races occur on Grand Comore and Pemba ( Ackery et al. 1995, p. 437) .