Charaxes lucyae

Species of butterfly

Charaxes lucyae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. lucyae
Binomial name
*Charaxes lucyae* van Someren, 1975 ^[1] ^[2]
Synonyms
Charaxes eudoxus lucyae van Someren, 1975 Charaxes eudoxus mwanihanae Kielland, 1982

Charaxes lucyae is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Tanzania.^[3]

Very close to Charaxes eudoxus but with more dentate wing margins and longer tails; there are also minor differences in the genitalia ^[4]

The habitat consists of sub-montane and montane forests.

Subspecies

Charaxes lucyae lucyae (north-eastern Tanzania)
Charaxes lucyae gabriellae Turlin & Chovet, 1987^[5] (north-eastern Tanzania)
Charaxes lucyae mwanihanae Kielland, 1982^[6] (eastern Tanzania)

Related species

Historical attempts to assemble a cluster of presumably related species into a "Charaxes jasius Group" have not been wholly convincing. More recent taxonomic revision,^[7] corroborated by phylogenetic research, allow a more rational grouping congruent with cladistic relationships. Within a well-populated clade of 27 related species sharing a common ancestor approximately 16 mya during the Miocene,^[8] 26 are now considered together as The jasius Group.^[7] One of the two lineages within this clade forms a robust monophyletic group of seven species sharing a common ancestor approximately 2-3 mya, i.e. during the Pliocene,^[8] and are considered as the jasius subgroup.^[7] The second lineage leads to 19 other species within the Jasius group, which are split into three well-populated subgroups of closely related species.

The jasius Group (26 Species):^[7]

Clade 1: jasius subgroup (7 species)

Clade 2: contains the well-populated three additional subgroups (19 species) of the jasius Group: called the brutus, pollux, and eudoxus subgroups.^[7]

the eudoxus subgroup (11 species):
Charaxes eudoxus
Charaxes lucyae
Charaxes richelmanni
Charaxes musakensis
Charaxes biokensis[stat.rev.2005]^[7]
Charaxes ducarmei
Charaxes druceanus
Charaxes tectonis
Charaxes phraortes
Charaxes andranodorus
Charaxes andrefana[stat.rev.2025]^[7]

Further exploration of the phylogenetic relationships amongst existing Charaxes taxa is required to improve clarity.

References

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^ van Someren, V.G.L. 1975. Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 32 (3): 65-136.
^ "Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: File H - Charaxinae - Tribe Charaxini". Archived from the original on 2013-11-09. Retrieved 2012-05-23.
^ Kielland, J. 1990 Butterflies of Tanzania. Hill House, Melbourne and London: 1-363.
^ Turlin, B., & Chovet, G. 1987. Etude d’un probleme taxonomique pose par des Charaxes africains du groupe eudoxus (Drury) (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae). Bulletin de la Société Scientifique Naturelle No. 54: 5-12.
^ Kielland, J. 1982 Three new races of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) from Tanzania. Lambillionea 81 (9-12): 86-90.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Turlin, B. (2005). Bauer & Frankenbach (ed.). Butterflies of the World: Charaxes 1. Vol. 22. Keltern: Goecke & Evers. pp. 2–3. ISBN 3937783156.
^ ^a ^b "Out of Africa again: A phylogenetic hypothesis of the genus Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on five gene regions" Archived 2019-07-25 at the Wayback Machine. Aduse-Poku, Vingerhoedt, Wahlberg. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2009) 53;463–478

van Someren, V.G.L., 1975 Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 32 (3):65-136.[1]