Tawny rajah
Upperside
Underside
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Charaxes
Species:
C. bernardus
Binomial name
Charaxes bernardus
(Fabricius), 1793

Charaxes bernardus, the tawny rajah, is a butterfly that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group, that is, the Charaxinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. This species can be found in India, China, Indomalaya, and onwards to Indonesia.[1]

Description

Charaxes bernardus has a wingspan of about 7–9 centimetres (2.8–3.5 in). The upperside of wings is reddish brown or pale brown-orange, with dark brown/black speckles at the wings tips and small black marks at the margin of the hindwings. On the underside of the wings there are irregular wavy or tawny brown speckles and whitish zigzag bands. Males and females are very similar in appearance.[2][3]

Habits

It has been recorded as a migrant in South India and is known to mud-puddle.[4]

Food plants

Known food plants of this species include: Aglaia lawii,[5] Aglaia roxburghiana (Meliaceae), Cinnamomum camphora, Litsea glutinosa, Litsea populifolia (Lauraceae), Sapium sebiferum (Euphorbiaceae), Adenanthera pavonina, Paraserianthes falcataria (= Falcataria moluccana), Tamarindus indica (Leguminosae), and Acronychia penduculata (Rutaceae).[6]

Subspecies

See also

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Notes

  1. ^ a b Charaxes bernardus at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ "Butterflies Club". Archived from the original on 2014-08-26. Retrieved 2014-08-23.
  3. ^ Gallery of Bengkulu
  4. ^ Mathew, G.; Binoy, C.F. (2002). "Migration of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) in the New Amarambalam Reserve Forest of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal. 17 (8): 844–847. doi:10.11609/jott.zpj.17.8.844-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-01. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
  5. ^ Kunte, K. 2006. Additions to the known larval host plants of Indian butterflies. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 103(1):119-121
  6. ^ nhm.ac.uk Caterpillar Host-Plant Database
  7. ^ a b Hanafusa, 1990: Ten new subspecies of Indonesian butterflies (Lep. Papilionidae, Satyridae, Nymphalidae). Futao 4: 12-15.
  8. ^ a b Hanafusa, H. 1992: Three new Nymphalid butterflies from Indonesia. Futao 9: 1-3.

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