Charaxes virilis, the blue demon charaxes, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The habitat consists of lowland evergreen forests and forest/savanna mosaic.
The larvae feed on Adenanthera pavonina, Griffonia simplicifolia, Cathormium, Dalbergia, Entada and Tetrapleura species.
Taxonomy Charaxes virilis is a member of the large species group Charaxes etheocles.
Subspecies C. v. virilis (Guinea, Sierra Leone, southern Burkina Faso. Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo) C. v. lenis Henning, 1989 Henning, G.A. 1989. in Henning, G.A. 1989. The Charaxinae butterflies of Africa 257 (457 pp.). Johannesburg. (Uganda)
References
Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren, 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 75-166.
External links Images of C. virilis Royal Museum for Central Africa (Albertine Rift Project) Ghana Butterflies images Charaxes virilis images (Consortium for the Barcode of Life) C. v. lena images BOLD C. v. virilis images BOLD C. v. virilis f. blandini images BOLD