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Charaxes harmodius
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Charaxes
Species:	C. harmodius
Binomial name
Charaxes harmodius Felder & Felder,
Synonyms
Charaxes marmax var. harpagon Staudinger, 1889

Charaxes harmodius is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Cajetan Felder and Rudolf Felder in 1867. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.

Charaxes harmodius is a large coppery butterfly with concave forewings with a brown apex and border and hindwings with a very small tail decorated with a submarginal line of dark brown dots with white pupils, the first a patch including two pupils of white. The reverse is coppery brown suffused with purple.

Subspecies

• Charaxes harmodius harmodius (Java)
• Charaxes harmodius martinus Rothschild, 1900 (Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia)
• Charaxes harmodius infernus Rothschild, 1903 (Borneo)
• Charaxes harmodius harpagon Staudinger, 1889 (Palawan)
• Charaxes harmodius maruyamai Hanafusa, 1987 (Peninsular Malaysia)
• Charaxes harmodius shiloi Hanafusa, 1994 (Laos)

References

1. Felder, C. & Felder, R. 1865–75. Rhopalocera. In Reise der Osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in der Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 under den Befehlen Commadore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band: Abtheilung. Vienna, 549 pp., 140 pls.
2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

External links

• Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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