Charaxes etesipe tavetensis - Scarce forest charaxes

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Charaxes etesipe

Photo(s): Bart Wursten, Cloud Pool, Gorongosa National Park, Muanza.

Species details:

Notes: The image shows a male.
Distribution: This race: coastal Kenya and Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, eastern Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Limpopo, northern KwaZulu-Natal South Africa.
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Literature: Henning, G.A., Pringle, E.L.L. & Ball, J.B. (1994), Pennington's Butterflies of Southern Africa, Struik Winchester, Cape Town, p. 93.
Woodhall, S. (2005), Field guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Struik Publishers, Cape Town, p. 110.
Williams, M,C. (2008), Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region, Nymphalidae subfamily Charaxinae, p. 160, Online Encyclopaedia.

Copyright: The Rwanda flora team, 2024-25

The Rwanda flora team (2025). Flora of Rwanda: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Charaxes etesipe tavetensis.
https://www.rwandaflora.com/speciesdata/insect-display.php?insect_species_id=403440, retrieved 31 March 2025

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