Charaxes pleione
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. pleione
Binomial name
*Charaxes pleione* (Godart, 1824)^[1]
Synonyms
Nymphalis pleione Godart, 1824 Philognoma lichas Doubleday, 1849 Charaxes lichas ab. othello Suffert, 1904 Charaxes lichas bebra Rothschild, 1900 Charaxes pleione ab. pallida Lathy, 1925

Charaxes pleione, the Square-winged Red Charaxes, is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania.^[2] The habitat consists of forests and woodland savanna.

The larvae feed on Acacia pennata and Acacia brevispica.

Subspecies

Charaxes pleione pleione (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria)
Charaxes pleione bebra Rothschild, 1900 (north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, south-western Kenya, north-western Tanzania)
Charaxes pleione congoensis Plantrou, 1989 (south-eastern Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo)
Charaxes pleione delvauxi Turlin, 1987 (south-western Rwanda)
Charaxes pleione oriens Plantrou, 1989 (coast of Kenya, eastern Tanzania)

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