- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Butterflies and Moths
- ›Butterflies
- ›Brush-footed Butterflies
- ›Leafwing Butterflies
- ›Dragon-headed Caterpillars
Emperor Butterflies
Charaxes
The rajah and pasha butterflies (genus Charaxes), also known as emperors in Africa and Australia, make up the type genus of the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. They belong to the tribe Charaxini, which also includes the nawab butterflies (Polyura, a subgenus of Charaxes). Charaxes are tropical Old World butterflies, with by far the highest diversity in sub-Saharan Africa, a smaller number from South Asia to Melanesia and Australia, and a single species (C. jasius) in Europe. They are generally strong flyers and are popular among butterfly collectors.
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Charaxes
subgenusCharaxes
Tailed Emperor
speciesCharaxes sempronius
Plain Tawny Rajah
speciesCharaxes psaphon
Charaxes affinis
speciesCharaxes affinis
Charaxes nitebis
speciesCharaxes nitebis
Malay Rajah
speciesCharaxes distanti
Orange Emperor
speciesCharaxes latona
Iron Rajah
speciesCharaxes mars
Charaxes musashi
speciesCharaxes musashi
Charaxes madensis
speciesCharaxes madensis
Charaxes amycus
speciesCharaxes amycus
Charaxes orilus
speciesCharaxes orilus
Charaxes eurialus
speciesCharaxes eurialus
Charaxes ocellatus
speciesCharaxes ocellatus
Charaxes antonius
speciesCharaxes antonius
Charaxes bajula
speciesCharaxes bajula
Charaxes carteri
speciesCharaxes carteri
Charaxes setan
speciesCharaxes setan
Charaxes dubiosus
speciesCharaxes dubiosus
Charaxes polyxena
speciesCharaxes polyxena
Charaxes fabius
speciesCharaxes fabius
Charaxes bupalus
speciesCharaxes bupalus
Charaxes fervens
speciesCharaxes fervens
Charaxes elwesi
speciesCharaxes elwesi
Charaxes plateni
speciesCharaxes plateni
Charaxes inopinatus
speciesCharaxes inopinatus
Charaxes kigeziensis
speciesCharaxes kigeziensis
Charaxes katangae
speciesCharaxes katangae
Charaxes mutuiae
speciesCharaxes mutuiae
Charaxes mutinondoensis
speciesCharaxes mutinondoensis
Charaxes figueirai
speciesCharaxes figueirai
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the old herbals & bestiaries
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Charaxes in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123913.