Charaxes etheocles etheocles ( Cramer, 1777 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 38

*139. Charaxes etheocles etheocles ( Cramer, 1777)

WL: 36mm. C. etheocles is a forest species known to inhabit somewhat degraded forest and some types of dry forest. The nominate subspecies flies from Senegal to Nigeria and is now objectively reported from Guinea-Bissau, although its occurrence in the country was foreseeable (Larsen, 2005); some other subspecies are known along Central Africa to Kenya, west of the Rift valley. The caterpillars are polyphagous and feed on Rhamnaceae , Ulmaceae and mainly on Fabaceae .

Studied material. Tombali: Coli , 0 6.07.2006, 1♀ (BS 28666).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: R; CS: I.