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''Charaxes tiridates'', the Common Blue Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Senegal, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola and Zambia.〔(Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini )〕 The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and dense savanna. The larvae feed on ''Phialodiscus unijugatus'', ''Hugonia platysepala'', ''Hugonia castaneifolia'', ''Bombax reflexum'', ''Chaetacme aristata'', ''Celtis africana'', ''Celtis durandi'', ''Grewia tricocarpa'', ''Grewia mollis'', ''Afzelia africana'', ''Flacourtia indica'', ''Indigofera macrophylla'', ''Osyris lanceolata'', ''Blighia unijugata'', ''Grewia forbesi'', ''Bombax buonopozense'', ''Albizia'', ''Berlinia'', ''Lonchocarpus'', ''Hibiscus'' (including ''Hibiscus calyphyllus''), ''Trema'', ''Cassia'', ''Dalbergia'', ''Macrolobium'', ''Millettia'' and ''Pterocarpus'' species. ==Description== Male upperside forewings have a black ground colour glossed blue.There is a discal arc of 5 or so spots and a postdiscal sinous line of 8-10 spots. These spots are light blue and slightly metallic.The margin has pale amorphous lunules. The hindwing has two postdiscal rows of the light blue spots, the second close to the margin which has pale more lineate lunules.There are two short tails. The female upperside has light brown basal areas, more extensive on the hind wing. There is a discal band of white marks just inside the much darker distal part of the forewing and two apical white spots.On the hindwing the dark area is narrow has 7 or so light blue and slightly metallic spots with some white scales.There are pale marginal lunules and one long and one short tail. The underside wings are variously light brown with black pattern lines and in the female only a white discal band. A full description is given by Rothschild, W. And Jordan, K., 1900 ''Novitates Zoologicae'' Volume 7:287-524. () page 354 for terms see Volume 5:545-601 () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charaxes tiridates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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